Current consultations and debates
Carers' Strategy: your views are wanted
Carers are being asked for their views on what actions will have the biggest impact on improving their lives in the next four years.
The Government is refreshing the national Carers Strategy - the plan to help carers - and needs to know what the key priorities will be.
Carers' responses are needed by 20 September to influence decisions after April 2011. The strategy is being refreshed in the light of the recent stringent spending review alongside local authority cuts and NHS planning.
Outcomes
The five outcomes are:
- Carers will be respected as expert care partners and will have access to the integrated and personalised services they need to support them in their caring role.
- Carers will be able to have a life of their own alongside their caring role.
- Carers will be supported so that they are not forced into financial hardship by their caring role.
- Carers will be supported to stay mentally and physically well and treated with dignity.
- Children and young people will be protected from inappropriate caring and have the support they need to learn, develop and thrive, to enjoy positive childhoods and to achieve against all the Every Child Matters outcomes.
The Government is asking for ideas on how to make these things work well for carers.
Individual carers
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow is particularly seeking the opinions of individual carers as well as organisations.
He said that the Government must prioritise its actions for the next four years to ensure value for money.
How to send in your views
Please complete one of the following forms:
Either email your response to carersevidence@dh.gsi.gov.uk or post it to: Carers Evidence Carers Strategy Team, Department of Health Area 116, First Floor Wellington House 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG.
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