What to know

• More than a million people have left work to look after loved ones in the past two years, Carers UK saysAbout 1,500 Britons a day are quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers, as they try to balance their vulnerable relatives’ growing care needs with declin...S1
• Prime Minister Andy Burnham has previously said that caring for a loved one without adequate support can and does ‘break people’S2