Carers are people who look after relatives or friends who, because of an illness or disability, can’t manage their support needs without help.
Sefton Carers Centre provides free advice and guidance, emotional and practical support, training and a range of holistic therapies for unpaid carers living in Sefton.
A Carer’s Assessment looks at the different ways that your caring role affects your life. It can look at how you can carry on doing the things that are important to you and enable you to feel that you still have quality of life.
The assessment covers the impact of your caring role - how you are feeling about caring, your physical, mental and emotional health and how caring may affect your work, leisure, education, wider family and relationships. As a carer your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing is at the heart of this assessment - demonstrating the impact & need for services.
If you decline an assessment, you will still be able to access information and advice, including any in-house services offered, as well as any other support available from local organisations that may benefit you in your caring role.
Further information can be found here: Carers Assessments
If you would like to complete a Carer's Assessment, please contact Sefton Carers Centre via their contact page here or call 0151 288 6060.
Young carers are children and young people who help to look after someone living with a health inequality who needs their support. They might be the sole carer or the main carer, or they could be part of a team that helps to support someone.
The person they provide care for is a friend or family member who, due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or a substance misuse issue, finds it difficult to cope without the young carer’s support.
If you are aged between 5 and 17 years of age and looking after someone in your family who couldn’t manage without you, then you are one of the 4,000 or more young carers that we estimate live in Sefton.
If you would like to talk to someone, please contact a member of the Sefton Young Carers team on 0151 288 6060.
Here are some of the ways Sefton Carers Centre can support you:
- They will listen to you
- Provide you with one to one support
- Develop a personal support plan for you
- Invite you to a weekly activity group and fun outings with other carers
- Provide you with advice and information
- Signpost you to other services
- Support your mental health, and arrange counselling if appropriate
- They may invite you to join us on one of our residential trips
- They will improve your access to services
- With your permission, they may talk to your school, college, doctor or to your social worker to arrange additional support.
- They will support you as you move through school, to college, to university, or to employment or training.
Transition to Adulthood
Approaching adulthood is a challenging time for all young people, with difficult issues to tackle and big decisions to make. For all young carers, the challenges of this transition can be even tougher.
The Sefton Young Carers transitions service begins before a young carer turns 16 and aims to provide free personal support until the age of 25.
The service is all about you and how you can be supported to be successful in your future life. It is about you, by you and for you.
Starting your own transitions journey means thinking about and talking about all aspects of your life, including education, training, careers, health, well-being, leisure, your caring role and the future. Once your journey begins, we will put in place support plans, and we will regularly review these to keep you moving forward.
Are you a Parent Carer living in Sefton who cares for a child who has a physical disability, learning disability or emotional/behavioural condition?
The Parent Carer Team can provide information, advice and guidance on services and support available to you. The Parent Carer Team are available to offer support to parent carers and their families by telephone on 0151 288 6060 or email: help@carers.sefton.gov.uk
For more information about Sefton Carers Centre and the range of support they offer please visit their website via Home (sefton-carers.org.uk)