New strategy improves lives of unpaid carers in Buckinghamshire. Council engaged with healthcare partners and groups.
The council made this plan with health partners, social care, and community groups. This strategy supports carers of all ages who live in Buckinghamshire.
The plan helps provide support to carers so they can maintain a good life while continuing their caring roles. The council worked directly with carers to ensure their views mattered.
A young carer even wrote the strategy’s forward. It talks about identifying carers in the community and ensuring partnership collaboration with carers.
Health and wellbeing support is a key point, ensuring carers can easily access useful information. Community engagement is also very important because carers are the heart of our community.
The council aims to fully support every carer, including the many young people who support sick relatives. The strategy supports them, too.
Carers Bucks welcomes this new strategy, which ensures partners will value and listen to carers. This strategy helps carers have lives too, acknowledging that young carers sometimes feel overwhelmed.
They must balance responsibilities and their own lives. This strategy recognizes the pressure young carers face, and the council will use the plan for five years.
The council will review the plan to ensure it works well. Carers Bucks helped shape the strategy, and Healthwatch Bucks, along with other groups like the NHS, also participated.