Carers Week is an annual awareness campaign which takes place to celebrate and recognise the vital contribution made by the UK’s 6.5 million carers. It is also a time of intensive local activity with thousands of events planned for carers across the UK.
A carer is someone who provides unpaid care and support to a family member or friend who has a disability, illness, mental health...
Carers in Plymouth are being celebrated with a week of events to mark Carers Week 2015 (8 – 14 June).
In Plymouth there are an estimated 27,000 unpaid carers, and nationally it is thought that unpaid carers save health and social care services around £120 billion per year. Around 42 per cent of unpaid carers do this for more than 20 hours per week and many carers are children.
Carers Week 2013 takes place from 10 to 16 June. With over 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK (that’s 1 in every 8 adults), this year the focus is on how the UK’s current carer population is coping and whether the wider population is prepared for future caring responsibilities.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is reaching out to local carers and reminding them that help...
New research from Carers Week of over 2,100 carers has revealed that carers are being woefully let down by a lack of support when they first take on a caring role. The findings from the report, Prepared to Care? show that support is not being made available to new carers with often devastating consequences.
Released to coincide with the launch of Carers Week 2013 (10-16 June), the...
This Carers Week (8-14 June) Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service as part of the Fire Kills campaign is reaching out to local carers and reminding them that help is available to keep them, and the people they care for safe from fire.
A recent survey showed that more than half of the people who had tested someone else’s smoke alarm had done so for an older family member. But...
