All Age Carers Strategy
We are working with partners across health, social care, the voluntary sector, and Carers themselves to develop and implement annual action plans to achieve the outcomes and priorities set out in this strategy.
Our key priorities
The Vision
“All Carers, including adult, young adult, young carers and parent carers, will be recognised and valued by the wider community and statutory agencies in Worcestershire, for the support and care they provide to vulnerable adults, children and young people”.
The strategy is based on the following 4 outcomes that have been agreed with carers and carers’ representatives, which are:
- to feel recognised and valued
- enabled to have a life of their own
- supported with their physical and mental health and wellbeing
- caring safely
The pandemic has made these key outcomes even more important.
There are also other key issues that Carers shared, such as financial concerns, loneliness and isolation and lack of breaks.
Other ‘hot topics’ were, maintaining employment, understanding the cared for’s condition, and coming to terms with it, maximising income, contingency and future planning, a whole family approach to assessments for the cared for, and assessments specifically for the carer.