The Bury Carers strategy reveals what carers, and those who depend on carers, have told us matters to them. This includes many partner organisations in the local health, social care and voluntary sector who frequently support carers.
The strategy sets out our three year commitment and was produced by the Bury Carers Strategy Group. The group developed eight emerging themes that mean the most to carers. The group have also taken learning from national, regional and Greater Manchester priorities.
The Bury Carers Strategy Group is responsible for the implementation and oversight of the strategy and associated action plan. Further information about the strategy is available on The Bury Directory.
Bury Carers strategy 2021 to 2024
The strategy aims to identify and appropriately support as many carers in Bury as possible. This is to provide a range of localised early intervention and preventative services and support across the Bury footprint that are shaped by and with carers.
It also encourages partners across the system to come together, to provide a joined up offer to carers that responds to the eight key themes that carers identified as important to them.
Key priority statements
Carers are clear on what is important to them and should be centric to the Bury Carers strategy and action plan:
- balancing my own life with my caring role
- improving and maintaining my personal health and wellbeing
- being recognised, acknowledged and valued as a carer
- to be socially active and not become isolated or lonely.
Key themes
The following themes were identified as being important to carers:
- carers are clear on what is important to them (key priority statements)
- information and advice
- local community support; more activities and support
- respite
- available support isn't right
- disjointed systems
- befriending and peer support
- identification.
Strategy and action plan
The outcomes we want to achieve:
- consistent and timely information and advice that is easy to access
- access to a range of befriending and peer support activities
- carer support is joined up, easy to navigate and delivers positive outcomes
- a variety of support and activities available across communities and neighbourhoods enabling carers to take a break
- ensure all carers are identified, equally recognised and supported at an early stage.
What success will look like:
- increase in the number of carers registered with the Bury Carers Hub
- improved ability to maintain relationships
- improved ability to connect to others
- improved ability to manage the caring role
- increase in the number of carers assessments undertaken
- levels of satisfaction amongst carers
- levels of carers who have find it easy to find information
- carers priority statements are centric to carers work and documents
- voice of carers is meaningful and contributes to service delivery
- carer awareness; increase understanding across all sectors and communities
- all to address the carers agenda to improve carer support, including holistic carer health and wellbeing needs and ensure carers become everyone's business in their own organisation
- GP's actively registering, supporting and directing carers
- ensure the needs of carers are recognised in relevant strategies' and policies provided by all sectors
- improved information sharing on the opportunities available for carer-led and community-led support, social activities, training, volunteering and peer support.
How success will be monitored:
- Bury Carers strategy action plan
- carers register
- referrals into the Bury Carers Hub (referrer and number of referrals made)
- monitoring returns
- clear impact performance tool
- NHS quality markers
- local annual carers survey
- survey of adult carers (statutory).