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Carers

Information on working with carers, including assessments and personal budgets

Carers

The Care Act sets out a duty for the Local Authority to assess the eligible needs of a carer. In the Care Act, a carer over 18 is defined by " an adult who provides or intends to provide care for another adult (an "adult needing care").

Further information on carer's assessments can be found in the guidance. Details of Covid-19 and personal protection equipment for carers can be found on the Camden Care Choices website.

There is guidance that can be found regarding the Care Act which relates to when a person (and possibly also their carer) moves out of Camden to a new borough. It also includes what information needs to be shared to ensure that their care continues uninterrupted, please follow this link for further details Continuity of care when moving out of Camden | Camden. 

The Carers Action Plan is a commitment to recognise and support carers better. It is a plan to enable all services to work together to meet the needs of carers.

The action plan is for unpaid, or informal, carers. These are carers who are aged 18 years and over who provide care for people who are 16 years and over, * and are not paid by health and social care services, or the person they are supporting, for their caring role.

Every step of this action plan has been coproduced with unpaid carers from our diverse communities. This reflects the voice of carers, their experiences and knowledge. It has taken a long time to get to this point.  It was felt important to not only show the actions in this plan, but to describe how the plan developed. The action plan is split into two sections:

The Carers Action Plan is designed to be dynamic and will change over time. In the Action Plan section, it shows the coproduced principles that should be at the heart of how all services should relate to carers (Part I). Carers have also identified priority areas where all services, but particularly those in health and social care, could make changes to benefit carers (Part II). There is an action tracker (Part III) which shows the identified actions that should be looked at first, and the progress to date. The priority areas and the tracker will be updated as the action plan progresses, things are achieved and areas of focus shift, under the direction of the new carer partnership board.

This will all be led by unpaid carers. Reaching and supporting more carers is key to everything we continue to do.

Carers in Camden has the supporting information for the action plan. This section discusses the definition of an unpaid carer; shows some data on carers in Camden and sets out carers rights. The section outlines how, and with who, the action plan was developed; how the progress of the action plan will be measured and the plans for a carers partnership board.     

How to connect with support, if you are an unpaid carer, can also be found here.

A link to the full PDF plan is here.

A link to the Executive Summary here.

A link to the Easy Read plan is here.

A link to the Easy Read Bengali version is here.

If you have any questions about the Carers Action Plan, please contact:

Jessica Lawson, Prevention and Wellbeing Service Manager

Shanta Joseph, Commissioning Manager, Adults and Health

Octavia Aronne, Carers Project Lead 

Last updated: 24 September 2024