It's Young Carers Action Day! We are looking forward to using the day to help raise awareness of young carers across the county. There are around 15,000 young carers living across East Sussex who...
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Response to ESCC consultation 2024
Below is Care for the Carers' response to the East Sussex County Council Adult Social Care and Health savings consultation, submitted on 28th November 2024: 28th November 2024 Dear ESCC colleagues,...
It’s Carers Rights Day!
It's Carers Rights Day! This is an important day that brings organisations and communities together, to help spread the world so that carers know their rights and find out how to get the support...
Recognising Carers Week – Matthew McKenzie
This Carers Week, carer and poet Matthew McKenzie FRSA joins us to talk about the importance of the campaign. First of all, I would like to say thanks to Care for the Carers giving me the voice to...
Supporting young carers in Hastings
We are very excited to be supporting young carers in Hastings with our new Young Carers campaign with Active Hastings! During the campaign we are encouraging local sports clubs and organisations to...
Young Carers Action Day 2023 – Make Time for Young Carers
Young Carers Action Day will take place on Wednesday 15th March 2023. The day raises awareness of young carers and young adult carers (aged up to 25 years old), who provide care and/or support to a...
It’s Carers Week!
Carers Week, 6th – 12th June 2022, Making Caring Visible, Valued and Supported Our pledge to you: This Carers Week we’re celebrating the amazing carers in East Sussex, thanking them for everything...
Carers Rights Day 2021. Your rights as a carer
What is Carers Rights Day? Carers Rights Day is on Thursday 25th November 2021. Carers Rights Day is a national campaign that brings organisations together to help unpaid carers know their rights...
Carers Week 8th – 14th June 2020, Making Caring Visible
The week celebrates and recognises the vital contribution made by the UK’s 6.6 million unpaid carers – over 68,000 in East Sussex - and the people who look after a relative, friend or neighbour who...
Celebrate 30 years of Care for the Carers
In 2019, Care for the Carers celebrated its 30th year and ran a variety of exciting events to celebrate carers and raise funds of the charity. Formed in 1989, we support and represent unpaid carers...