Carers

Are You A Carer?

If you’re a carer who helps and supports someone who can’t manage on their own, we want to ensure you get all the support you need.

Particularly those people who may be looking after a member of their family or helping a friend or neighbour with day to day tasks, don’t really regard themselves as a Carer and are undertaking this vital activity without help or support.

If you are caring for someone, we really would like you to let us know, so that we can ensure you receive all the support and information we can give on topics such as benefit entitlement, access to respite care or maybe simply being there to provide a kindly ear when things get too much.

Our Health & Wellbeing Coach would be able to support you in practice if you think that you are/or could be caring for someone. We can offer telephone, face to face or video consultations.

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There is a wealth of information on the NHS website about carers and caring. Below are some links into the site that we hope you will find useful.

Finance and Law

Help claiming benefits, looking after your bank balance and understanding the legal issues of caring.

  • Benefits for carers
    Directing carers to the benefits that can help them in their caring role.
  • Benefits for the under-65s
    Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to.
  • Benefits for the over-65s
    Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness.
  • Carer’s Assessment
    How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits.
  • Other benefits
    Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring.

Non-urgent advice: Contact Carers Direct

Telephone0808 802 0202

Website: www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support-guide

Email: [email protected]

Lines are open 08:00-21:00, Monday to Friday. 11:00-16:00 at weekends.

Calls are free from UK landlines.