Let’s celebrate Carers Week (8th -14th June)
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Warwickshire County Council is excited to celebrate Carers Week 2020 (8 -14 June). The theme for this year is Making Caring Visible.
There are many people who don’t associate with the term carer but simply as mum, dad, brother, sister, grandparent, neighbour or good friend. However, if you provide unpaid care for someone and that person could not cope without your help – you are a carer.
We don’t want anyone with a caring responsibility to feel they are on their own. They are not. Along with our Adult Social Care team here at the council, we also work with several services such as Carers Trust, Heart of England, Carers UK, Warwickshire Young Carers and the Parent Carer Forum who can all provide specialist advice and guidance.
We have a packed schedule of tweets, posts and online content that we will be sharing across our social media accounts next week.
On Monday, we will be discovering what support is available for those with a caring responsibility and also what is a carer; Tuesday, what services are available from our partners in Warwickshire; Wednesday, what is the vision for Carers in Warwickshire – taking a look at plans for the Warwickshire Carer strategy and Thursday, specific advice for the different strands of care i.e. parent carers and young carers. Finally, on Friday we will be identifying community and local groups who can provide help and support.
We would like to encourage everyone to follow, like and share our content across our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Join us as we celebrate carers every day during Carers Week with a virtual cuppa. Get your family, friends, colleagues and others together and encourage those who care to take a break. Take pictures and send to the comms team at newsteam@warwickshire.gov.uk or upload on your social media and tag @Warwickshire_CC along with the hashtags #MakingCaringVisible and #carersweek.