News at the Carers’ Centre:
New Facebook App for Carers: Who Cares?
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers has launched a new facebook app called Who Cares? The app aims to give an insight (to non experienced Carers) into the life of a Carer. Through the use of facebook messages, the app helps to discover who of your facebook friends could take on the role of a carer and what impact caring could have on their social life.
Free ‘Personal Budget’ Workshops for Carers
The way that social care needs are being met is changing. This is part of the national changes to the way that services are managed and arranged.
These changes will affect Carers. To help understand more join us on one of our free sessions. To help make sure Carers are ready for the changes and to explore how it may affect them we are running a couple of workshops.
These workshops will help to:
- Explain what personal budgets are
- Explain what is happening locally
- identify how things may affect you
- Give you time to discuss this with other Carers and ask questions
These courses are completely free and have been developed by the ‘Princess Trust for Carers.’
For more information download a flyer or contact either Ushma on 0208 877 1200 or Daniel on 0208 675 0811.
Carers inform developments of new GP Consortia
The Centre has now completed its series of workshops (including a specific Young Carers session) putting Carers and their voices at the heart of developments of the new local GP Consortia. At the last event we were joined by Jenny Weinstein from LINk and Nicola Jones the lead GP for Wandsworth’s Clinical Commissioning group.
A report has now been produced about the series of workshops including the comments and recommendations made by those Carers who attended. To read the full report click here.
Carers engaging in discussions about the new developments
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NEW Carer led Forum begins to take shape
Wandsworth Carers’ Centre has been working with Carers to identify interest in getting their own Carer-led forum up and running. For more information click here.
someone, who, without payment, provides help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour, who could not manage without their help. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability. The term Carer should not be confused with a care-worker, or care assistant, who receives payment for looking after someone.
Are you helping someone by providing emotional support or help with practical tasks such as shopping, collecting benefits, filling in forms, washing and dressing or housework?
Then Wandsworth Carers’ Centre are here to help you.
Wandsworth Carers’ Centre
181 Wandsworth High Street
London, SW18 4JE
Phone: 020 8877 1200
Fax: 020 8877 3936
Minicom: 020 8877 1200
info@wandsworthcarers.org.uk
Wandsworth Carers’ Centre – Balham Office
46 Balham High Road
London SW12 9AQ
Phone: 020 8675 0811
Fax: 020 8675 8452