Support For Carers

Please note, this service is not available outside Age UK Solihull - Head Office's catchment area.

Age UK Solihull
The Core
Central Library
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 3RG
United Kingdom

Email: admin@solihullcommunityhub.org.uk
Telephone: 0121 709 7590
Website: https://solihullcommunityhub.org.uk/index.php/being-a-carer/

Contact our Community Advice Hubs for information on support available for carers in Solihull.

Information

The Care Act 2014 gives carers the right to an independent assessment regardless of their needs for support or their financial resources. The assessment must consider how the provision of support would enable a carer to achieve their desired day to day outcomes, and whether the carer is willing and able to continue to care and have regard to whether the carer is working, training or in education or wishes to do so and; what resources or support the carer can access from the wider community. A carer can refuse an assessment. A carer’s right to an assessment is independent of the person with care needs’ rights to assessments (e.g. a carer still has a right to an assessment even if the person with care needs refuses an assessment). An assessment of your needs as a carer could result in the identification of you requiring more support in and out of the home, assistance with household tasks, respite to enable you to get out and about and maintain social relationships, hobbies and activities or simply time for yourself.

Direct Payments Support Service

If you or the person you care for are financially assessed as requiring local authority support with the cost of meeting your needs you will be allocated a Personal Budget, this budget can be managed by the Council, or you can receive a Direct Payment. Click below to find out more.

Direct Payments Support Service

Carers Trust

For specialist advice, contact Carers Trust Solihull on 0121 788 1143, or click below to visit their website.

Carers Trust website