Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system

Two days before her death, parent-carer Matilda Davis shared a study on Facebook showing that more than forty percent of parent-carers had considered suicide, calling for greater awareness, action, and change in Britain's social care system. The Guardian reports that Davis had spent years navigating a regime that observers say is increasingly fragmented and difficult to access, leaving parent-carers facing chronic stress before help arrives.

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