Carers Forums

Carers Forums offer the opportunity for carers to meet with other carers and those who provide services for them and for the people they look after. The forums meet regularly and provide a platform for up-to-date information and the airing of carers' views. Speakers are invited from various organizations to give information on benefits and new services.

Carers are encouraged to influence the policy makers, to campaign for better benefits for themselves and for their dependants, to work with the service-providers to meet the needs of all carers and the people they care for.

The forums give you a chance to have your say about issues that affect you. You can meet with members from statutory and voluntary bodies who can support you. It gives you the opportunity to make your views known to the service providers and you can also say how the forums should be run.

Daytime meetings, with lunch provided, are held throughout Leicestershire and in Leicester and Rutland. Meetings are friendly and informal and provide an opportunity to meet like-minded carers.

For more information, or to be included on the forum contact your local carer development worker. If you would like to attend a forum but have difficulty with transport or a sitting service for the person you care for, you carer development worker will do as much as possible to help.

Click here to find your local carer development worker.