Carers Rights

Carers in Hertfordshire has a range of fact sheets covering your rights as a carers and other useful information. These are free to download below in pdf format (requires Adobe Reader) or, alternatively, hard copies can be requested from your local Carers in Hertfordshire office.

General Information for Carers
Fact Sheets for Carers of People with Mental Health Problems
Fact Sheets for Carers of Adults with Learning Disability
Fact Sheets for Carers of People who Misuse Drugs or Alcohol
Fact Sheets for Parent Carers

General Information for Carers:
	Fact Sheet G1: About Carers in Hertfordshire	Fact Sheet G2: Benefits for Carers
	Fact Sheet G3: Carers Assessments	Fact Sheet G4: Carers Rights
	Fact Sheet G5: Carers and Employment	Fact Sheet G6: Direct Payments
	Fact Sheet G7: How to Access Grants and Funding	Fact Sheet G8: New to Caring? Caring for someone who is Elderly or Physically Disabled
	Fact Sheet G9: Helpful Organisations and Websites	Fact Sheet G10: Medicine Top Tips
	Fact Sheet G11a: Backing you up - Contingency Planning	Fact Sheet G11b: Backing you up - Contingency Planning
	Fact Sheet G12: Making a Difference	Fact Sheet G13: Carers and Learning

Fact Sheets for Carers of People with Mental Health Problems:
	Fact Sheet MH1: What is Mental Illness?	Fact Sheet MH2: Types of mental illness: Neurosis and psychosis
	Fact Sheet MH3: Types of mental illness other than neurosis and psychosis

Fact Sheets for Carers of Adults with Learning Disability:
	Fact Sheet LD1: Internet Information on Learning Disability

Fact Sheets for Carers of People who Misuse Drugs or Alcohol:
	Fact Sheet DA1: Community Drug and Alcohol Teams	Fact Sheet DA2: Hertfordshire organisations providing support for drug and alcohol
	Fact Sheet DA3: Internet information - drug and alcohol	Fact Sheet DA4: UK organisations providing support for drug and alcohol

Fact Sheets for Parent Carers:
	Fact Sheet PC1: Help for Parent Carers	Fact Sheet PC2: Organisations and Contacts of Use to Parent Carers
	Fact Sheet PC3: Help for your child: Adaptations and Equipment	Fact Sheet PC4: Holidays and Respite for Parent Carers
	Fact Sheet PC5: Parent Carer Participation & Involvement

More fact sheets will be added to this page as they become available.