Raising awareness about carers

The Carers Strategy includes a commitment to improve carer awareness amongst health, social care, housing, education and other professionals and to provide the information and services to support carers in their caring role. This section provides examples of different approaches to raising carer awareness and staff training programmes.

• Recognising young carers: a guide for practitioners.?The Princess Royal Trust Sunderland Carers Centre.
  This guide aims to raise awareness amongst professionals working with young people and their families of young carers and the issues facing them. It explains who young carers are and the types of 'care'...
• Keeping the Family in Mind resource pack
  Aimed at anyone who works with parents with mental health problems, their children and their families. It is a multimedia package of training resources designed to raise awareness of the issues that families...
• Surrey Young Carers Education Advisers
  Remaining in education can provide challenges for many young people, but for those who have a caring role at home this environment can provide additional problems at times. Surrey Young Carers Education...
• A relationship-centred approach to living well with dementia
  Between April and July 2010 the Alzheimer's Society conducted a pilot of a new training course 'A relationship-centred approach to living well with dementia' across five counties in the East Midlands....
• Running a local event on carers and personalisation
  This is an outline of an event which took place in York in February 2011. It may help in considering how local events elsewhere might be delivered. The day was designed in order to provide all those...
• The Triangle of Care - Carers included: a guide to best practice in acute mental health care
  Developed by The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and the National Mental Health Development Unit with carers of people using acute mental health services, the Triangle of Care describes a therapeutic...
• Torbay self-assessment form
  Torbay Care Trust wants to encourage carers to receive appropriate support as easily as possible. One way is through self-assessment, either on their own or with support. Torbay's self assessment form...
• Identifying Carers through the presenting problem
  This document is a flowchart for GP staff to help identify Carers.
• Carers awareness training - pilot
  Lancashire's multi agency strategy was launched in 2009. It aims to raise awareness of carers and their needs amongst existing community based groups and help to identify 'hidden carers'. The training...
• Lead commissioning role for Herts Adult Care Services with PCT-funded carers breaks
  Carers in Hertfordshire and Hertsmere NHS PCT and GP surgeries have worked together to develop enhanced services in GP surgeries to identify and support carers. A survey was carried out in 2005 to...
• Championing carers - training for staff in GP surgeries
  New training to help GP staff to identify and support Carers.
• Requesting a carer's assessment. Carers information sheet
  Carers information sheet
• Hertfordshire Needs and Outcomes Assessment form
  The Needs and Outcomes Assessment developed by Hertfordshire takes into consideration the views and potential needs of the carer throughout the assessment process for the person who is cared. By considering...
• Carers Protocol for use in General Practice
  The Aims of this Protocol is to: Actively identify Carers who are patients within the practice population. Routinely direct identified Carers (with consent) to local support services and where...
• Carer Benchmark Certificate
  Below is an award recognising GP staff Carer awareness in Tameside.
• Your GP needs to know if you are a Carer
  Leaflet distributed through GP surgeries
• Carers Student Unit
  East Riding have set up a 'carers student unit' which provides placements in the seven district care management teams, with a focus on assessing the needs of, and working with, carers. This has enabled...
• Carer ID pad
  Form for GPs and Practice Nurses within NHS Tameside and Glossop to help identify hidden carers
• Carers Matter - Everybody's Business
  Skills for Care and Skills for Health are working in partnership to developed a national learning/training framework with supporting resources to ensure that key workers receive training to better support...
• The Children's Society Include Project, Hampshire: GP surgery pack
  In response to requests from young carers that noticeboards in GP surgeries display up-to-date information about support and resources for young carers and their families, a pack has been circulated...
• Employers for Carers
  Employers for Carers is a service for employers to help them retain the 1 in 7 employees in their workforce caring for a family member. It promotes the business benefits of supporting carers and provides...
• Young carers at school
  The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, in partnership with The Children's Society, has produced Supporting Young Carers, a resource to help schools across the UK to develop a deeper understanding of the...
• Lincolnshire: trusted assessors
  Carers in Lincolnshire said they want easier access to assessment and choice of who assesses them. In response to this, the Council developed a system for training people in the voluntary sector as trusted...
• London Borough of Richmond's assessment process
  Richmond's new assessment process has more emphasis on the carer and their roles. It incorporates the following: Identifying and understanding the contribution of carers to meeting a service user's...
• Letter for GP practice manager
  Letter to GP Practice Managers about Tameside's Carers Identification scheme, offering a number of initiatives to help practices to identify carers and refer them to available support.
• Investors in Carers award scheme
  The scheme is just one initiative that allows Carers to get information within their GP, Health Clinic waiting room. Placing a Carer specific notice board can help identify Carers and signpost them...
• Essex Carers Assessment form
  This is the form that Essex County Council uses for self directed assessments with carers and to enable them to decide on allocating resources to support carers.