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Government is ‘ignoring our reality,’ says unpaid carer from Winchmore Hill

Published 12 August 2026, 12:11pm

Mary Griffin-Porter has spent 44 years as a full-time carer for her son and has now launched a petition calling for major reform of the carers allowance system

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