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"And now you are asking women to provide even more unpaid service. This would only exacerbate the imbalance."

Family caregivers for people with dementia now provide 31 hours per week of unpaid care.

Thousands of unpaid carers will have their cases reassessed after an official review found they had been left with huge debts caused by systemic failures.

Charities say they are seeing people owing increasing levels of unpaid bills and charges to suppliers.

One landlord attending Norwich County Court also told of how anxious she was about coming to court to try to collect £2,200 in unpaid rent.