The Delamere Medical PracticeBeing a Carer
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Advice for Carers
If you provide unpaid care to friends or family there is information and support available.
Manchester Telephone: 0800 234 6123
Trafford Telephone: 0300 330 9073
Website: www.gov.uk/guidance-for-those-who-provide-unpaid-care-to-friends-or-family
Free Needs Assessment
Needs assessments are for adults (18 years of age or over) who may need help because of a disability, ill health or old age. Anyone who appears to have a need for care or support can have a needs assessment, regardless of the ‘level’ of those needs or the person’s financial resources.
Manchester
Telephone: 0161 234 5001
Website: www.manchester.gov.uk
Trafford
Telephone: 0161 912 5199
Website: www.trafforddirectory.co.uk
ACCG - African Caribbean Care Group
The ACCG delivers day care and home care services and aims to provide a service to the whole family, not just the person being cared for.
Telephone: 0161 226 6334
Website: www.accg.org.uk
Young Carers
Lots of young people are carers without realising it – often for a family member such as a brother or sister, parent or an older relative. Sometimes it can be for a partner or friend who is ill, frail, has a disability, has a mental health concern or has a drug (or alcohol) addiction.
Carers UK
They’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.
Telephone: 0808 808 7777
Website: www.carersuk.org
Email: info@carersuk.org
Free Carer’s Assessment
If you provide unpaid care for a friend or relative, you are entitled to a free assessment of your own needs as a carer from the council. You will be entitled to an assessment regardless of the amount or type of care you provide, your financial means or your level of need for support.
Trafford Carers Centre
Trafford Carers Centre supports unpaid carers looking after someone who lives in the Trafford area, including help applying for a carer’s assessment by Trafford Council.
Telephone: 0161 848 2400
Website: www.traffordcarerscentre.org.uk
Being There
Being There is a small charity with support services in Manchester and Trafford providing emotional support and home-based practical help to people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses, along with those closest to them, such as family, friends and carers.
Telephone: 0845 123 23 29
Website: www.beingthere.org.uk
Talbolt House
Talbot House has been supporting the families of people with learning disabilities in Manchester since 1976.
Telephone: 0161 203 4095
Website: www.talbot-house.org.uk
Email: admin@talbot-house.org.uk