The Adult Social Care and Community Safety Scrutiny Committee is reviewing how carers are identified in East Sussex.
Background to the review
The 2001 Census found that there are around 50,000 carers in East Sussex and the Council is in contact with 4,000 of them. We want to find out why such a small amount of people who might be considered as carers ask for help, and what we can do to improve this.
Aim of the review
The review board will look at what the Council, the voluntary sector and the health services are doing to identify adult carers who care for an adult. They want to find out:
- how to get more people to recognise when they are doing a caring role or to identify themselves as ‘carers' (even if they don't want to be known by that term),
- if statutory agencies and voluntary organisations can do more to identify carers they come into contact with and show them how to get support.
Review board members
Your comments
We asked for your comments on the issues that the review is looking at. The deadline for responses was 27 January 2012.
Reporting
The review board will produce a report outlining its findings and recommendations, and this will be considered at:
A progress report showing how the recommendations from the review have been put into action will be presented to the Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee at a later date.
Enquiries
For further information, please contact the
Scrutiny team.
East Sussex County Council