We are doing a range of work to help us, and others, understand the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) carers of all ages. As well as our own survey which is available here (and you can click here to find out more) we are also working with Dr Kate Blake-Holmes to understand the impact on young […]

From Friday 10 April to Monday 13 April carers needing advice or support, and professionals, can still email us at [email protected] or leave a message 07843 327336. These will be checked regularly over the Easter weekend. Non-urgent enquiries will be responded to when the main helpline – 0345 241 0954 – re-opens as usual on […]

At Caring Together we provide information and advice, run services in our local communities and campaign for carers’ rights, so that carers have choices. How we are doing this at the moment has had to change but our purpose and commitment to carers and the people they look after remains the same. We offer a […]

We are offering carers we support in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area, a letter to help identify them as a carer. This can then be shown, if needed, when carrying out activities such as shopping to help the person they look after. We are pleased the government has recognised the important role played by carers […]

Cambs Youth Panel are buying Google Chromebooks to lend to young people in the Cambridgeshire region who are ‘going without’ because of COVID-19. These are being bought with money that they have raised for the ‘Arms Across the World’ campaign which is not going to be spent in 2020. They have said, “There’s no likelihood […]

At this time we are all being asked to make radical changes to our lives – to stay at home, adjust to schools and many other places closing, to socially distance from our family and friends, and follow guidance on self-isolation – but throughout this the incredible care workers at Caring Together are still at […]

At Caring Together we provide information and advice, run services in our local communities and campaign for carers’ rights, so that carers have choices. How we are doing this at the moment has had to change but our purpose and commitment to carers and the people they look after remains the same. In light of […]

Caring Together have written to our care customers to reassure them that we have a contingency plan in place in relation to the spread of COVID-19 virus, otherwise known as the Coronavirus. While we cannot predict what will happen over the next few weeks and months we recognise that they may be concerned about what […]

At the start of 2020 we won the Health & Social Care Employer of the Year Award at the Cambridge Regional College Apprenticeship Awards. At the time of the awards Joanna Sawka, who is one of our care workers who is part of the apprenticeship scheme said, “I have been employed as a care worker […]

Four more organisations have had their activities to identify and support carers, including young carers and young adult carers, recognised by the awarding of the Carer Friendly Tick. Addenbrookes Outpatients Department in Cambridge, Cornerstone Practice in March, Alconbury and Brampton Surgeries, Norfolk Healthy Child Programme (0-19), and MTM Youth services in Norfolk have all been […]