Carers’ support organisations
Name of organisation | Information | Contact details | |||
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Carers Trust and Carers Trust Wales | 24 hour online support; where to find your local carers’ services; dedicated help and advice including benefit entitlements, carers’ needs assessments and much more. | www.carers.org | |||
Local Carers’ Centres and services | Carers’ centres are independent charities that deliver a wide range of local support services to meet the needs of carers in their own communities. All carers’ centres provide, either by telephone, drop-in or outreach surgeries, the following core services:
| To find your local carers’ centre please look here: | |||
Crossroads Care schemes | Crossroads Care schemes are a network of local independent charities providing respite services in the home enabling carers to take a break. This may be provided either as part of a care package funded through the local authority or paid for privately. | To find your nearest Crossroads Care scheme look here: | |||
What your Local Health Board and Local Authority offer to carers | |||||
Local Health Boards in Wales | All Health Boards have a requirement under the Carers Strategy (Wales) Measure 2010 to publish and implement a local Carers Information and Consultation Strategy telling carers what information and support they are entitled to, to help them in their caring role. | To find out what your Local Health Board is doing, log onto the ‘NHS Wales’ website and type in ‘carers’ in the search option: | |||
Support provided by your Local Authority | Your Local Authority will also have details on carer support and what they provide. | You can find a list of them all on the link below. Just click on your region and type ‘carers’ in the search engine. http://gov.wales/ topics/ localgovernment/ unitary-authorities/ ?lang=en | |||
Citizens Advice Wales | Free advice on a wide range of issues – open to everyone in Wales and across the UK. | www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ wales/ |
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