Campaigns : Supporting Carers Hub

Supporting Carers Hub

Campaigns : Supporting Carers Hub

Supporting Carers Hub

Inspiring ways to provide better support for carers.

This is for anyone who provides support to unpaid carers in England. It’s a storehouse of great practice and great ideas from social care teams and other organisations on how they’re improving support for carers so they can balance their caregiving with other commitments in their lives.

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Digital support / Info, advice & support

Carers Community Network

The Carers Community Network (CCN) is a unique online forum offering carers 24/7 access to peer and professional support alongside information, experience and idea sharing.

Info, advice & support / Carer breaks

Carers Improvement Programme

Haringey Council is reviewing its overall strategy and the support offered to carers. In line with the principles set out in the ‘Haringey Deal’ a commitment the council is making to co-producing its work, they want to make sure carers have an active role in influencing and developing the new approach.

Adult carers / Great practice

Carers Walk & Talk Project

Carers Support Centre (Bristol & South Glos) have been running walk and talk groups for carers since August 2022, which take place over 6 consecutive weeks in local green spaces, particularly in areas of multiple deprivation.

Great practice / Wellbeing programmes

Carers Cookery and Wellbeing Breaks Programme

Portsmouth Carers Service Carers Cookery and Wellbeing Breaks programme gives adult unpaid carers the opportunity to participate in activities which offer a break from caring. The activities offered also support carer health and wellbeing by promoting healthy eating, emotional, and physical and wellbeing activities, opportunities to develop new skills and interests, social engagement, and the chance to get outdoors to enjoy the natural world.

Great practice / Wellbeing programmes

Artist in Residence

The Care for the Carers Artist in Residence project supports carers to share their experiences of caring and raise awareness through arts projects.

Adult carers / Young adult carers

Carers’ Voice: High Peak Consultation Project

In 2023, Derbyshire Carers Association carried out a consultation project to document the current experiences of carers in High Peak (Derbyshire), as well as providing ‘best practice’ recommendations for the future based on insight gained from the carers involved.

Great practice / Identifying carers

Our Dorset Carers Collaboration – Our Dorset ICS Leaflet to Identify Carers

The aim of this initiative was to increase the number of identified Carers in Dorset by creating a leaflet with complimenting poster that was easy to understand and gave clear instructions on how unpaid carers can access support.

Great practice

Our Dorset Carers Collaboration – Practical Skills and Learning Opportunities for Carers

The Dorset Carer Partnership Group (DCPG) worked together to coproduce a useful and effective booklet to showcase the training offer for Carers in Dorset Council area and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council area.

Great practice / Identifying carers

Our Dorset Carers Collaboration – Standardising ‘unpaid carer’ coding in Dorset’s General Practices on SystmOne

This project was initiated to standardise how unpaid carers are identified within patient record systems in Dorset primary care services (all Dorset GP Practices use SystmOne).

Great practice / Campaign

Our Dorset Carers Collaboration – National campaign event coordination

The Dorset Carers Partnership Group (DCPG) aimed to bring information together in one place for carers in Dorset, connecting them to services that can support then and raising awareness of the events taking place throughout Carers Week and on Carers Rights Day.

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Find support for carers in your area

If you’re looking for resources or support services for carers in your area contact your local council and ask for information and support for carers, or you can access advice and resources through our supporting carers hub partners below.

Carers Trust website Carers UK website

The Supporting Carers Hub is delivered in partnership with

Carers Trust

ADASS/LGA: Partners in Care and Health (PCH)

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