Resources for Carers

Publications

Do you care?: Preparing carers to get the best from the Care Act 2014

This is a guide for carers over 18 on how to get the information, advice and support you need.

Supporting Carers: Sharing Best Practice in Integrated Approaches to Support

This learning will be of interest to everybody involved with local Carers’ Partnerships at a strategic level, including carers themselves.

Better Local Support for Carers: A Framework For Good Practice

The framework enables conversations between a range of people and organisations (Local Authorities, Health Commissioners and Providers, the Third Sector -including Carers organisations and carers), to discuss, plan and assess local progress in identifying and supporting carers including implementing the Carer’s elements of the Care Act (2014).

Podcast: A Carer's Perspective on the Mental Health White Paper

A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views

Family Carers Survey

Family carers have told us about the varied ways they support a relative with a learning disability in different housing settings and shared their concerns about what would happen (and does happen to people) without this input.