An unpaid carer cares for family or friends who have a disability, illness or who needs support in later life: washing them, doing their laundry, their dishes, keeping appointments and records, filling forms, and dealing with a range of health professionals.
The Partnership uses Carers Week to increase awareness and to reach some of the estimated 400,000 unpaid carers across West Yorkshire, including young adult carers like Tom (pictured) who has been a carer for 15 years.
With only 50,000 registered unpaid carers (with their local GP surgery) across West Yorkshire - there is a real need to encourage more people to identify so they can get the support they need.
Awareness raising activities included:
- A different theme for each of the days including health and social care issues affecting carers, work and employment, younger carers, older carers and mental health and wellbeing
- A toolkit of resources, including six social media graphics, were created and shared with partners to use locally on the Carers Week 2022 webpage
- Nine videos were recorded in support of ‘Carers Week 2022’. This included local unpaid carers, senior leaders from the Partnership and GPs
- Co-production of a young carer education pack and a ‘Working Carers Passport’ guide for managers
- The Race Equality Network working alongside the Partnership developed a series of webinars dedicated to supporting working carers from ethnic minority communities that work across West Yorkshire
- Social media activity on Twitter @WYpartnership.
You'll find more information on our Carers Week 2022 page.