Involvement: Having a Voice
Carers in Hertfordshire is a
platform for the voice of carers
Carers in
Hertfordshire offers carers the opportunity to get their voices
heard on an individual and collective basis by:
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Informing and advising carers about how they
can access services or compliment or complain about the
services that they, or the person being cared for, receive.
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Involving carers in specialist Carers’ Forums
and local Listening to Carers events.
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Enabling carers to participate in the
planning, scrutiny and monitoring of health and social care
services. Carers can give their views on the availability
and quality of existing services and can work in partnership
with other agencies to plan the provision of new services.
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Enabling carers to speak up about what they
need – perhaps a break from caring, a chance to get out, or
counselling and the chance to talk through their concerns.
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Feeding back carers’ views to County
Councillors and other planners to decide strategies and
priorities in social and primary health care.
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Building up a picture of carers’ concerns and
difficulties every time a contact is made with Carers in
Hertfordshire, which can be used to inform service
planning in other agencies.
Current opportunities to get involved:
Learning Disability Project:
Involving carers of adults with
learning disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders in the
development of health and social care services, including
housing and leisure, through carer representation on the
Learning Disability Partnership Board and participation in the
Learning Disability Carers Forum.
Click here to find out more.
Mental Health Carers Involvement Project:
Involving carers of people with
mental illness in the development and commissioning of community
and in-patient health and social care services, through carer
representation on the Joint Commissioning Partnership Board and
participation in the Mental Health Carer Representatives Forum.
Click here to find out more.
Family Carer Drug and Alcohol Project:
Involving carers of people who
misuse drugs and/or alcohol in the development and commissioning
of community and in-patient services and social care services by
bringing family carers together to identify their key issues and
by supporting them to talk to treatment providers and
commissioners direct.
Click here to find out more
Parent Carer Participation
Project:
Involving parents of children and
young people with a physical or learning disability
in the planning and development of services, including
for example Short Breaks and Transition, through carer
representation on the Strategic Stakeholder Group and
the Parent Carer Involvement Board.
Click here to find out more.
Carers Training Unit: Involving
carers in the training of paid staff. Providing training in
Carer Awareness - for example to social work students, home
care workers or hospital doctors - is an important way
for carers to get involved in improving services. Click
here to find out more.
Listening to Carers Events:
Consultation sessions are held
throughout the County to give carers the opportunity to speak up
about local concerns and to be involved in developing local
Carers’ Action Plans.
Click here to find out about forthcoming
events near you.
Carers and Learning: Enabling
carers to find some time for themselves and to get involved in a
range of courses aimed at developing new skills – for leisure or
in preparation for taking up work.
Click here to find out about forthcoming
courses in your area. |
