The Carer Aware Project
Carers Trust Wales and Carers Wales are charities that supports unpaid carers across Wales. Carer Aware is a joint project, funded by Welsh Government, between Carers Trust Wales and Carers Wales to work collaboratively with unpaid carers, social care and health professionals to better empower unpaid carers to be actively involved in decisions and services for the people they care for and themselves. The objective of the project is to work with staff at all levels of our social care and health systems to create meaningful cultural change to benefit unpaid carers in Wales. This includes:
- raising the awareness of the rights that unpaid carers have, based on the framework set out by the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 that gave unpaid carers rights of their own,
- identifying and sharing existing good practice already happening across Wales
- actively supporting unpaid carers to be more involved co-productively, to makes changes on a personal and systematic level.
We have listened and consulted with a range of stakeholders to develop brand new e-learning resource packages for health care professionals. These modules include a range of different modules and are applicable to different audiences, including ‘Identifying unpaid carers within primary care’ and ‘Identifying unpaid carers from underrepresented communities’.