Essential reading on the train to “spell” my mother’s carer (as I do every week): the Cabinet papers for Suffolk’s controversial and undemocratically decided school transport proposals. Women are predominantly the principal carers for all age groups and are disproportionately affected by local government cuts.

No surprise then that over 70% of respondents to the school transport consultation were female!  Yet only 25% of the single-party Cabinet making this decision are women .

Ironically this is #CarersWeek. The hashtag #realCarersWeek on Twitter will give the reality of caring in the UK, 2018.