Oxfordshire Carers' Information Pack and Guides
Introduction
This pack has been put together by Oxfordshire County Council to provide key information for Oxfordshire carers and professionals who support them.
If you prefer to be directly in contact with staff who can help you, please contact Oxfordshire County Council's Access Team at 0845 050 7666 or email access@oxfordshire.gov.uk
This pack includes a:
Guide
The new Oxfordshire County Council guide for carers Are You Looking After Someone? (.pdf format, 232Kb).
This 20-page guide covers:
- information, support and services for all carers including contact details for the local carers' centres and useful numbers and websites
- information about social care services provided by Oxfordshire County Council, an explanation of a carer’s assessment and what sorts of services or other options may be available.
Carer's assessment
If caring has a major impact on your life, you can talk to someone in Oxfordshire County Council's Social and Community Services about the help and support you may need. This is called a carer’s assessment.
You can either:
If you would like any help with this please contact the Access Team on 0845 050 7666 or email access@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Safeguarding vulnerable people
Download this brief guide Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults - what is adult abuse? (.pdf format, 135Kb).
Emergency Carers' Support Service
Download information about the Emergency Carers' Support Service (.pdf format, 400Kb) – a free Oxfordshire service for carers of adults who register with them.
Support services
A range of support services is available for carers in Oxfordshire. Some of them are listed below:
- Carers' centres: your local carers' centre can offer you a range of support services and advice for carers of adults, parent carers and young carers.
- Rethink Carer Support Service: carers of adults of working age with mental illness may benefit from specialist support. Please see www.rethink.org
- Age UK (formerly called Age Concern) whose Oxfordshire headquarters is based in Abingdon, is another voluntary agency which provides a range of help and support for the county. See the website.
- Oxfordshire Family Information Service (OFS) can provide a broad range of information, signposting and support for parents and for carers of disabled children. Please see www.oxonfis.org.uk .link.
- Occupational therapy: if the person you are caring for has any kind of mobility difficulties please visit www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/otequipment link where you will find information about support, services and equipment, some of which can be purchased privately.
- Buying your own services: if you are trying to source home carers privately, a list of local providers is available at www.ukhca.co.uk.
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