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Suffolk Family Carers

Information, support and advocacy for Family Carers of any age who live in Suffolk. Specific projects include:

  • Community Support Team
  • Young Carers Project
  • Mental Health Project
  • Flexible Respite Project for Family Carers of older people
  • Black & Minority Ethnic Project
  • Training & Education Projects
  • Moving & Handling Home Tuition
  • FACT (Fire & Carers Together) Project

Our services include working with Family Carers one-to-one or within Support Groups.

Helpline open 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday on 01473 232679.

Information on how to get breaks; funding opportunities; signposting to other organsiations that can help; activities and social events; further education and training opportunities; complementary therapies.

To find out more about how we can support you call our Family Carers' Information and Support Centre on 01473 835400 or visit our website (click the link just below):

Suffolk Family Carers website

Gordon BrownBrown pledges social care reform for elderly and disabled
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers was invited today to hear the Prime Minister launch his review of a care and support system for England. Without radical reform, the government admits that the care...
12.05.08

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Carers' News

Keeping it in the family
Approximately one million children live with a parent who is dependent on alcohol, according to a report published during Alcohol Awareness Week in April by Alcohol Concern and The Princess Royal Trust...
28.04.08

Counting carers
After pressure from carers and carers charities, this month has brought some important steps forward in the campaign to ensure that carers are counted in the next census. Carers were included for the...
15.04.08

Life with Parkinson's: many carers lack support
Launching Parkinson's Awareness week, the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) has published the results of the largest ever survey of people with Parkinson's and their carers. The research is based on...
07.04.08

CSIP report on High Impact Changes for Health and Social Care
In March 2008, David Behan, Director General of Social Care launched the Care Services Improvement Partnership’s (CSIP) publication on the High Impact Changes for Health and Social Care. This is a collection...
24.03.08

Latest Discussions

Parents or Carers?
We are fed up of being called "Carers" by the authorities. We are Parents to our handicapped son who lives with us. Being a Parent includes caring but it is a much, much wider definition than the institutionalised...
Chorlton - 16.05.08

dont know what it is?
i am a single grandmother careing for my 6 year old grandaughter she has been diagnosed with microcephaly (tiny brain syndrome) she has other disabilaties too but nobody has actually explained this...
polly 2 - 15.05.08

parents of autistic children
help can someone please explain to me why when our son asks for a drink and says he will be good, he then pours it all over the hearth, is it just to see us jump up and down or is it to prove that there...
evelyn - 05.05.08

fed up !!!!!!!!!!1
hi im mummy to hannah who has a heart problem she is 28 mths tube fed, and a handful, i live with my mum and things go well most of the time BUT her ideas and mine about the way i live my life are...
nicky4321 - 03.05.08

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