{"id":122,"date":"2018-03-11T18:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2018-03-11T18:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:07:40","slug":"petition-to-allow-carers-to-study-more-than-21-hours-a-week-and-claim-carers-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/2018\/03\/11\/petition-to-allow-carers-to-study-more-than-21-hours-a-week-and-claim-carers-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition to allow carers to study more than 21 hours a week and claim Carers Allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-11-at-18.03.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-11-at-18.03.56.png 786w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-11-at-18.03.56-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-11-at-18.03.56-768x679.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-11-at-18.03.56-250x221.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>We\u2019re in an exciting time of youth political engagement and social movement leadership. Within those movements, there is a petition that has been started by 19 year old young adult carer Lucy Prentice of Pencadar, Wales. Lucy has been a carer for her disabled mother since age 11 and attends college part-time. She, like many other young adult carers, would like to attend college full-time, but the current law in place for the Carer\u2019s Allowance does not allow study on a course for more than 21 hours a week, even if they meet the 35 hour a week caring requirement to claim the Carer\u2019s Allowance. Young adult carers like Lucy are forced to decide whether to claim the Carer\u2019s Allowance of \u00a362.70 a week, or to be in full-time education. The current law overlooks that it can be advantageous for young adult carers to maintain full-time education whilst providing unpaid care for their families. Continuing in education is also import for their future careers. As Lucy says, \u00a0the Carer\u2019s Allowance rule prohibits young people like her from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixers.org.uk\/news\/15833-11208\/help-young-carers-study.php\">\u201creaching their full potential\u201d<\/a>. \u00a0Her petition calls on the government to exempt young carers from the 21 hour rule of the Carer\u2019s Allowance. Please consider signing the petition <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/202755\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feylyn Lewis<\/p>\n<p>F.M.Lewis@sussex.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re in an exciting time of youth political engagement and social movement leadership. Within those movements, there is a petition that has been started by 19 year old young adult carer Lucy Prentice of Pencadar, Wales. Lucy has been a carer for her disabled mother since age 11 and attends college part-time. She, like many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/2018\/03\/11\/petition-to-allow-carers-to-study-more-than-21-hours-a-week-and-claim-carers-allowance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Petition to allow carers to study more than 21 hours a week and claim Carers Allowance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","category-policy-changes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/caregivingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}