Carers' support service
“Healthy carers, healthy lives, healthy services.”
The Carers’ Support Service aims to:
• engage, facilitate and support carers to develop their skills and knowledge, to nurture links and collective activities between them, and to self-manage long-term conditions better
• facilitate access to information and services and to influence providers to deliver more appropriate services.
Why?
• Caring may affect anyone, and can have life-altering consequences.
• Caring forms a vital part of the fabric and character of every community.
• Without carers, health and social care services would be overwhelmed with demand.
What difference does it make?
“I don’t know what state I would have been in without this service.” (carer)
• Greater wellbeing of people cared for
• Greater freedom for carers to have a life of their own
• More carers maintaining their own health and well-being
• More carers having confidence in services
• More carers as partners in service provision
Who?
• Carers, aged 16 and over, resident in the City of Salford.
Where?
• Charlestown and Lower Kersal, in the City of Salford.
How?
• Outreach to and engaging carers
• Supporting and empowering carers
• Linking with and improving other services
Contact: Chris Dabbs (Chief Executive) on 0161 743 0088 or chrisdabbs@chapltd.co.uk
Commissioned by Salford City Council (Community, Health and Social Care)
This page was last updated on 20 August 2008
