Mother's suicide exposes how Britain's broken care system pushes parent-carers to breaking point

Matilda Davis, 36, died by suicide after years as a primary carer for her disabled son, leaving behind two young children and exposing critical gaps in mental health support for parent-carers.

In Stratford-upon-Avon, a thirty-six-year-old mother named Matilda Davis died by suicide in October, hours after social workers visited her home and left without asking whether she was thinking of ending her life. She had spent years as the sole carer for her disabled son, navigating a social care system that researchers describe as chronically under-resourced and structurally exhausting — one that studies show pushes more than four in ten parent-carers to contemplate suicide. Her death, and the inquest that followed, has placed a quiet, largely invisible crisis at the centre of a national con

Mother's suicide exposes how Britain's broken care system pushes parent-carers to breaking point

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