Carers

Support for adult carers

 

Newham Carers Community (NCC) 

NCC are the commissioned carers support service to provide support to carers and young carers across the borough of Newham. They offer free and confidential advice, information, activities and support to unpaid carers living or caring for someone living in Newham.

What can Newham Carers Community support you with?

  • Individual carer support: We can help identify Carers' goals and aspirations and work with you to achieve them via measuring your journey of support. We can work with Carers on a 1-2-1 basis, either face to face, over the phone or online to understand their situation and develop a tailored plan of support.

  • Practical support: For example, supporting you to complete an online/paper form or calling an agency to make a referral for you. i.e. completing a Carer’s Emergency Plan or support with requesting a Statutory Carer’s Assessment.

  • Infomation, advice & guidance:  We can help Carers understand their rights & help ensure that they get the support that they are entitled to.

  • Carer related support workshops: We provide a monthly carers workshop that can be attended online/in-person that covers such subjects as Mindfulness and Meditation, Carers Rights and Advocacy, Wellbeing, Stress Management, Positive Thinking; a full programme can be found here: https://rb.gy/0meqqt

  • Social/peer support groups: Support Carers to access/attend Carer peer group supports; and attend existing groups on a quarterly basis to understand and address issues where possible.

  • Free Flourish online courses: We can provide access to carers to over 130 online courses via Flourish, many of which are related to carer support and their role i.e. First Aid skills, Autism, ADHD or Dementia Awareness, Manual People Handling, Bereavement advice.

  • Support to access a statutory carers assessment: We can support Carers with obtaining statutory Carers Assessment by helping them make a request for one to LBN via the online form or via telephone.

  • Signpisting & Referring: We provide info and referrals to support services across Newham for Carers to receive or access agencies that they otherwise may not be aware of.

To get in touch or make a referral please email info@newhamcarerscommunity.org.uk or call 020 3954 3143.

Well Newham

Well Newham is here to connect you with the things that will support you to be as healthy as you want to be and the things that matter to you. 

Well Newham brings together everything in one place to help you connect with a range of health and wellbeing services and activities in Newham.

Please visit www.wellnewham.org.uk

Carers Resident Advisory Group

Join the Carers Resident Advisory Group to have your say. This is a voluntary opportunity to join a group of local carers to share your thoughts on how we can make improvements to the service. You will receive updates on the progress being made to support Carers and meetings will be held quarterly.

For more information and to sign up please email carersqueries@newham.gov.uk

Emergency Plans

Newham’s Carers Emergency Card Scheme allows carers to prepare alternative support arrangements for the person that they care for, to be used when they are not able to carry out their caring responsibilities due to an emergency. All carers can join the Carers Emergency Card Scheme.

Once a carer joins the scheme, they are given a card which has a registration number and a telephone number that can be called in an emergency situation. This free service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

For more information and to sign up, please click here. 

Carer Resident Support Groups

There are a number of resident led carer support groups in Newham. For a full list of groups known to LBN, please visit the ‘support for carers’ section on Well Newham here.

Carers Assessment 

Please visit here to view information and guidance for carers on carers assessments.

Newham Rise

Newham Rise can help if you:

  • Are worried about the drug or alcohol use of someone you care for
  • Would like to talk to someone about how another person’s drug use is affecting you.

Newham Rise provides a range of support to families, individuals and carers in Newham affected by drugs and alcohol.

Services include family, couple and individual therapeutic interventions such as:

  • Counselling
  • Carers' support group
  • Drugs and alcohol awareness
  • Carers' assessments
  • Parenting support
  • Evening clinic: 5pm-7pm

More information about Newham Rise can be found here

Support and groups for carers in Newham

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