Carers
Carers' Declaration
Please see our carers’ declaration below:
Carers Direct
If you or someone you know needs help with day-to-day living because of illness or disability, the NHS website explains your options and where you can get support.
Hours: Lines are open 08:00-21:00 Monday to Friday, 11:00-16:00 at weekends. Calls are free from UK landlines.
Telephone: 0808 802 0202
Website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide
Carers Matter Norfolk Handbook
In the handbook you will be able to find resources which direct you to the most appropriate support available. The handbook is now available for download as a PDF. To download, please go to the Carers Matter Norfolk website.
Website: www.carersmatternorfolk.org.uk
Caring Together
Caring Together is a network partner of Carers Trust and has grown significantly over the past ten years, providing more services and more help for family carers and their families across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
Telephone: 01553 750 014
Website: www.caringtogether.org
Email: hello@caringtogether.org
Carers Matter Norfolk
Supporting young carers and families.
Telephone: 0800 083 1148
Website: www.youngcarersmatternorfolk.org
Great Yarmouth & Gorleston Young Carers
GYGYC offers age-specific peer support groups for Young Carers aged 8 to 25 who are caring for their parents or supporting their parents in caring for a sibling. Through targeted activities that offer support, respite, fun and learning opportunities, facilitated by Youth Workers offering support with their coping mechanisms and strategies to improvement their physical and mental health.
Website: gygyc.co.uk
Carers Identity Passport
People looking after family members or friends have said they want to be recognised as a carer when they are in healthcare settings. In order to help support carers with this a Carers Identity Passport is now available via Carers Voice Norfolk and Waveney, to ensure carers are recognised and can get the help and support they require.
The Carers Identity Passport is currently recognised within East Coast Community Healthcare, James Paget University Hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust.
To find out more or request your passport go to www.carersvoice.org/carers-identity-passport
Carers UK
They’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.
Telephone: 020 7378 4999
Website: www.carersuk.org
Email: info@carersuk.org