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Carers UK
Information and advice for unpaid carers, including rights, benefits, work, health and practical issues.
Carers Trust
Information and support for unpaid carers, including young and young adult carers and links to carer services.
Carer's Assessment
A Carer's Assessment looks at how caring affects your wellbeing and what support could make your caring role more manageable.
Adult Social Care assessment
Request an assessment when the person you care for may need help with daily living, independence or care and support needs.
Live Well Directory
A wider directory of local care, community, wellbeing, activity and support services across the Liverpool City Region.
The Brain Charity
Free support for carers of people with neurological conditions, including information, advocacy, benefits help, counselling and social support.
Barnardo's Action with Young Carers
Support for young people aged 25 and under who look after a family member because of long-term illness or disability.
Family Information & SEND Directory
Local information for children, young people and families, including SEND support, activities, childcare and services.
NHS Talking Therapies
NHS support for common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, including talking therapies.
Age UK
Information and support for older people and their families, covering money, health, care, housing and later life.
Samaritans
Confidential emotional support, day or night, for anyone who is struggling or needs someone to listen.
National Domestic Abuse Helpline
Free, confidential support for women experiencing domestic abuse and for people worried about someone they know.
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Our directory above is deliberately selective. Live Well contains a much wider range of local services, groups, activities and practical support across the Liverpool City Region.
Questions about carers support
Quick answers to some of the things carers ask us most often.
Liverpool Carers Centre supports unpaid adult carers who care for someone living in Liverpool. If you're unsure whether that includes you, contact us and we'll help you work it out.
No. You may still be an unpaid carer if you live separately but regularly provide practical or emotional support.
No. Caring can include emotional support, attending appointments, collecting medication, managing paperwork or finances, shopping, arranging care or regularly checking that someone is safe.
Yes. Many unpaid carers combine caring with work, education or family life. You may also have rights at work that can help you balance employment and caring.
No. Receiving Carer's Allowance is not what makes somebody a carer. If you regularly support someone who could not manage without that help, it is worth finding out what support is available.
It is an opportunity to look at how caring affects your wellbeing and quality of life, and what support could help. It is about your needs as a carer, not a test of how well you care.
Information, advice and support from Liverpool Carers Centre is free. If a separate external service or activity has a charge, this should be explained to you.
Professionals can contact Liverpool Carers Centre to discuss the appropriate referral route. Carers can also contact the Centre themselves.
If this is urgent, use the right service.
Liverpool Carers Centre is not an emergency service. If someone is in immediate danger or there is a life-threatening emergency, call 999.
You don't have to work out the right service yourself.
Tell Liverpool Carers Centre what's happening and we'll help you find the most appropriate support or next step.
