We are asking GP surgeries to help unpaid carers get the essential support they need. Carers Week from 10-16 June will raise awareness of unpaid carers. The national campaign aims to ensure more people realise they are a carer, and help them get support. Across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 70,000 people care for a family member or […]
Read more...With schools returning for the start of the new term it was great to see our awareness team out and about at Martham Academy in Great Yarmouth. Belinda, from Caring Together’s awareness team, delivered twelve assemblies between Key Stage 1 and 2, using the young carers animation for schools, which forms part of the resources […]
Read more...Helping schools identify and support carers is an important part of our work. And it has been superb to see how this has carried on during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. We are able to deliver awareness sessions by using Zoom, and Belinda from our awareness team recently delivered a training session to over 60 designated […]
Read more...Our awareness team will be attending a number of Octagon Medical Practices in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire to promote the work we are doing to support carers in the community and giving out helpful information about where carers can access support. See below for a list of upcoming events: Thursday 17 Oct, 10am-12pm at Park Medical Centre, […]
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