Are You a Carer?
If you are please let us know – we may be able to help you.
Contact Carers Direct
This is a free, confidential information, advice and support service, to help you as a carer. They provide:
- Advice on how to cope in a crisis
- A guide to caring
- Financial and legal advice
- Advice for young carers
- Work and study information
- Help to find local support groups and services
- Advice on keeping healthy
Telephone: 0808 802 0202
Email: CarersDirect@nhschoices.nhs.uk
Office Hours: Lines are open 8am to 9pm Monday to Friday, 11am to 4pm at weekends. Calls are free from UK landlines.
Further Support & Services
Newham Carers Network
Newham Carers Network works to:
- Provide advocacy, information, and advice for all carers
- Offer support services and activities for young carers
- Assist the development of carer’s support groups
- Provide a programme of health support services for carers
- Facilitate a carers forum in Newham
- Encourage planners and providers to develop services which are “carer-aware”
- Reach hidden carers – e.g., young carers, carers from BME communities, and marginalised carers – through targeted outreach
Contact:
Address: Newham Carers Network, 395 High Street North, Manor Park, E12 6PG
Phone: 020 8519 0800
Learning Disabilities Carers
A chance for carers to share information, as well as receive information, talk to other carers and take time out for you. This support group is for parents, relatives or carers of an adult with a Learning Disability or someone with a Learning Disability who has a caring role.
- The Support Group meets the last Wednesday of every month 11.30am – 2.30pm at: Given Wilson Hall, St Mary’s Road, Plaistow, London, E13 9AE
Contact:
Address: Carers Team, London Borough of Newham, Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London, E16 2QU
Phone: 020 3373 4817 or 020 3373 3048
Email: carers.team@newham.gov.uk
Non-urgent advice: Information & Support
A guide to care and support: Information for carers and people who have care & support needs.
Caring for someone: Advice on providing care, medicines etc.
Care after hospital: Providing care for people who have been recently discharged from hospital.
Taking a break: Caring for someone can be a full-time job – find out about accessing breaks and respite care.
Support and benefits for carers: Caring for someone can be a full-time job – find out about accessing breaks and respite care.
Work and Disability: Guidance, support and help with employment issues.
Being a young carer: Advice for carers 18 or under and their entitlement to support
Benefits for the under-65s: Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to.
Benefits for the over-65s: Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness.
Carer’s Assement: How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits
Other benefits: Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring