Carers

Unpaid Carers can be of any age – older adult, younger adult or child - and can be found across all of our local communities.

The health and social care services provided by the partnership and the many partner agencies and organisations that we work with can be readily identified and “counted”; we have a good idea of where services are being delivered, by whom and the impact of these. In contrast, much of the unpaid care provided by people in our communities can go unrecognised even though we know that providing unpaid care can impact upon health, wellbeing and life opportunities.

All carers have the right to help, support, information and services. We want carers to manage their caring responsibilities with confidence and in good health, and have a life of their own outside of caring. We want to work in partnership with carers as equal partners to support their caring role.

The Partnership developed its Carer’s Strategy – see below - in response to the Carers Act 2016. Our ambition is to work with our local unpaid carers to deliver flexible, responsive and effective services to both the cared-for individual and the carer.

Self-directed support is not only the means by which the delivery arrangements for the care and support of the cared-for person are put in place but it also underpins the supports that are offered to the carer. We want the assessed needs and agreed outcomes of carers to be fulfilled and for them to also have positive engagement experiences of liaising with our care and support services.

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