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📽 Introducing the National Disability & Carers Card Scheme

📽 Introducing the National Disability & Carers Card Scheme

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November 20, 2025

A woman wearing the hidden disability lanyard and a man with the carer lanyard at a shop together.

Millie and Edward tell their story of living with and caring for someone with a hidden disability, how the National Disability Card and National Carers Card came about, and how they can help.

"It's been life-changing... now there's a lot more support, I wear my National Disability Card and people actually offer me a seat or give me some space or let me go to the front. You don't have to explain it and have people getting cross at you." - Millie

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