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Carers of someone with a learning disability

Robert Hill, Carers’ Development Worker, Lambeth Mencap 0208 655 7707 –   rhill@lambethmencap.org.uk

Lambeth Mencap Carers’ Development Service

This project has two broad aims:

  • to develop and support the involvement of family carers in the work of the Learning Disability Partnership Board
  • to identify carers’ support needs and ways that these can be addressed

Who is the project for?

The role of the Carers’ Development service is to increase carer involvement, to help carers get the information and support they need, and to know about their rights as carers.

What does the project do?

The Carers Development Service can provide the following types of support:

  • Support to take part in the Lambeth Learning Disability Partnership Board
  • A Carers’ Update about every six weeks on issues important to carers
  • A Carers’ Forum every eight weeks for carers to make their views known and to be taken forward to the Partnership Board. These meetings provide an opportunity to receive and share information, and also to be able to talk to the people who make decisions.
  • Individual work with carers to provide information, help them to get services and offer general support.
  • Attending community care assessments and reviews and arranging carer’s assessments

The Carers Development Service seeks to promote carer involvement and empowerment.

www.lambethmencap.org.uk

Lambeth Mencap is the borough’s leading provider of community-based support services to adults with learning disabilities and their family carers. Its main services include the Community Support Service, an Adult Placement Scheme, a Carers’ Development Project and a range of Leisure activities. More information is available at Lambeth Mencap's website http://www.lambethmencap.org.uk/

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