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Trafford Carers, Family and Friends Strategy

A carer is someone of any age who provides unpaid support to a partner, family member, friend or neighbour to enable them to cope and carry on their day to day life as they could not manage without this help. This could be caring for a child or an adult who requires help due to physical or mental illness, disability, frailty or addiction.
 
Unpaid carers play a vital role in ensuring that those they care for remain living successfully in our communities and live as good a life as possible. As we live longer and with improving treatment we can expect more and more people in Trafford to require some level of care and support at some point in their lives, this will mean that more and more of us will at some point become carers for a partner, family member, friend or neighbour.
 
Trafford Carers, Family and Friends strategy sets out how Trafford Council, Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group, Trafford Carers Partnership Board together with our carers and other organisations will work together to provide carers with the support they require.

We believe that all carers have the right to be recognised, respected, valued and supported both in their caring role and as individuals in their own right”

This survey is designed to offer you, no matter what your experience of caring is, the opportunity to comment on the “what we will do” recommendations that have come out of the Strategy. It is grouped into the following “I” statements which describe what carers in Trafford can expect:

 
  1. I will be identified as a carer as early as possible, be informed, be respected, be valued and included by health and social care professionals. 
  2. I will have choice and control about my caring role, and will get the personalised support I need as a carer. 
  3. I will be able to stay healthy and well and my needs and wishes will be recognised and supported. 
  4. I will be socially connected and not isolated. 
  5. I will be supported to fulfil my educational and employment potential, and where possible in maintaining employment. 
  6. If I am a young carer or young adult carer, I will be supported to be able to thrive and develop educationally, personally and socially, and I will be protected from excessive or inappropriate caring roles.

 

Under each statement we have listed the proposed recommendations and we would like you to comment on anything that you would add or change about each section.

 


 

1. Before we begin the consultation questions, we would like to know more about your experience of unpaid caring.  Can you tell us which of the following best describes you?
 
Thank you. Now please continue to comment on the “I” statements in the Strategy.
 
Part 1


I will be identified as a carer as early as possible, be informed, be respected, be valued and included by health and social care professionals.

What we will do:

 
  • Ensure carer identification and understanding of carer support pathways is embedded within health and social care and other services that have regular contact with people and families 
  • Develop carer awareness training and guidance on expectations re carer involvement for health and social care professionals. 
  • Further develop our neighbourhood and place based model for carers’ support that helps identify carers’ in all communities including those from seldom heard groups.
2.  Do you feel these recommendations will improve the identification of carers and how they are informed, respected, valued and included by health and social care professionals?
 
Part 2 

I will have choice and control about my caring role, and will get the personalised support I need as a carer

What we will do:

 
  • Ensure that carer’s needs and choices are considered during health and social care processes/interventions for their cared for including the need for replacement care and respite care.
  • Further develop access to carer support services to ensure all carers have fair access services.
  • Continue to promote Trafford Carers Centre as the referral focus and hub for carer support utilizing strength based conversations with carers. 
  • Provide preventative information advice and training for carers including online information linked to Trafford Carers Centre web site and other information websites.
  • Support carers to consider future needs including emergencies, contingencies and advanced planning linked to potential future changes in their caring role
4. Do you feel these recommendations will help carers to have choice and control about their caring role and get the personalised support they need?
 
Part 3

I will be able to stay healthy and well and my needs and wishes will be recognised and supported.
 
What we will do:

 
  • Further promote primary care carer identification and link carers into the social prescribing support offer.
  • Seek ways to promote carers as a group for targeted preventative health, public health and wellbeing interventions including carer health assessments. 
  • Further develop carer support groups in a range of settings (workplace, community groups etc.). 
  • Use strength based conversations with carers to promote their health and wellbeing. 
  • Continue to develop wellbeing services for carers and build on learning from initial Autism pilots to promoter wider carer resilience.


 
6. Do you feel these recommendations will help carers to stay healthy and well and their needs and wishes recognised and supported?
 
Part 4

I will be socially connected and not isolated.

What we will do:

 
  • Ensure that the need for replacement care and respite care is considered as part of the cared for assessment process. Use strength based conversations with carers to help them recognise their own needs and find ways they can keep connected.
  • Maintain the flexibility of the personalised carer support fund to meet both crisis and preventative needs re social connection.
  • Develop opportunities for carer social interaction through specific activities and events.

 
8. Do you feel these recommendations will help carers be more socially connected and not isolated?
Part 5

I will be supported to fulfil my educational and employment potential, and where possible in maintaining employment.

What we will do: 
 
  • Develop the best practice identified in the Greater Manchester  Working Carer Toolkit within the Council and CCG and promote the use of the toolkit across other organisations and employers
  • Strength based conversations with carers will focus as required on educational and employment needs.
  •  Income maximization services available to carers including advice related to carers allowance and in work benefits.
  • Ensure that information, advice and support is available to working carers regarding their employment rights and options.


 
10. Do you feel these recommendations will help carers fulfil their educational and employment potential and where possible maintain employment?
Part 6

If I am a young carer or young adult carer, I will be supported to be able to thrive and develop educationally, personally and socially, and I will be protected from excessive or inappropriate caring roles.

What we will do:
  • Ensure young carers are identified and their needs and choices are considered during education, health and social care processes.
  • Provide information and support to raise awareness of young carers and their rights to education, health and care professionals.
  • Prevent inappropriate caring roles from impacting on children and young people’s wellbeing by strengthening links with early help offer and early help assessment tools. Ensure that the voice of young carers is heard and influences service design, delivery and improvement.
  • Provide support to enable young carers to reach their potential and make important life decisions such as further education or employment training.
  • Young carer resilience strategies developed through appropriate support, training opportunities and social activities.

 
12. Do you feel these recommendations will help young carers to be able to thrive and develop educationally, personally and socially, and I will protect them from excessive or inappropriate caring roles?
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