North Northamptonshire Council All Age Carers Strategy 2024-2029

Closed 3 Mar 2024

Opened 29 Jan 2024

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CommissioningTeam@northnorthants.gov.uk

Feedback updated 4 Apr 2024

We asked

North Northamptonshire Council are developing their first All Age Carers Strategy. We asked carers, or someone who is supporting a carer, to feedback on the draft strategy.

The All-Age Carers Strategy 2024-29 sets out our vision and priorities for recognising, valuing, and supporting carers. It reflects legislation and national guidance regarding the role and duties of local authorities. The strategy also aims to respond to priorities that have been highlighted within North Northamptonshire, which were discovered during recent engagement events with local carers.

We have identified five key priorities to support carers in their caring role and to maintain their own health and wellbeing. The strategy outlines our actions for each priority, and we want to know carers views on these. The feedback will be used to further develop our action plan for the final All Age Carers Strategy 2024-29.

The priorities are:

  • Identification and recognition
  • Information and Advice
  • Carers Breaks
  • A life alongside caring
  • Joined up systems - Telling my story once

You said

  • 76 Surveys were submitted
  • Of the 76 submitted forms, 7 contained no information

The results of the survey show that those participating mostly agreed with the 5 priorities.

We did

The feedback has been collated, and will be taken to the newly formed *Carers Forum for discussion and decision making. This will then be used to make changes to the Strategy at future reviews - the strategy will be reviewed yearly by the group to measure success/identity where more support/changes are required.

*The Carers Forum is made up of carers, who are Experts by Experience.

Overview

North Northamptonshire Council are developing their first All Age Carers Strategy. We are asking carers, or someone who is supporting a carer, to feedback on the draft strategy.

Who is a carer?
Many of us look after someone that we care about. A carer is anyone who supports and cares, unpaid, for a family member or friend living with a disability, long-term illness, substance misuse or a mental health need, when this person would not manage without help. 

Have your say
The All-Age Carers Strategy 2024-29 sets out our vision and priorities for recognising, valuing and supporting carers. It reflects legislation and national guidance regarding the role and duties of local authorities. The strategy also aims to respond to priorities that have been highlighted within North Northamptonshire, which were discovered during recent engagement events with local carers

We have identified five key priorities to support carers in their caring role and to maintain their own health and wellbeing. The strategy outlines our actions for each priority, and we want to know your views on these. Your feedback will be used to further develop our action plan for the final All Age Carers Strategy 2024-29.

The priorities are :

  • Identification and recognition
  • Information and Advice
  • Carers Breaks
  • A life alongside caring
  • Joined up systems - Telling my story once

What happens next?
We will analyse the results and feed them into the Strategy.   The Strategy will then be presented at our Executive meeting in April 2024 for finalisation.

If you require this survey in any other format please contact: CommissioningTeam@northnorthants.gov.uk

This survey closes at midnight, 3 March 2024.

For information about how consultation and engagement responses are managed, please see the consultation and engagement privacy notice. 

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