Carers call for an end to unequal access to home care

The new alliance spans voluntary and private care providers as well as family carers. Stock picture

The unequal access to homecare based on where you live needs to end, an alliance of family carers and voluntary and private providers has urged.

A report, published yesterday by the Home Care Providers Alliance, highlighted a critical shortage of carers and said access to care depends on an “arbitrary Eircode lottery”.