• Family carers of all ages need looking after too | Letters

    Readers respond to a column by John Harris about the need to include unpaid carers in the political conversationJohn Harris rightly thanks Ed Davey for drawing attention to family carers and the need to reduce the many pressures facing them. It is important, however, that the debates about how to achieve this are placed in the context of the recent increases in the state pension age (Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised?, 25 May).

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