B. Priority: Identifying Carers

Outcome: Adult and young carers, are identified, or can self-identify, so they will know where to go for support, keeping them well for longer and helping them avoid crisis

Actions will include:

• We will provide our own local online carer awareness training and make it mandatory for social care professionals and promote and encourage uptake by health professionals.
• We will explore the best use of digital solutions to identify adult carers early and help them to self-identify.
• We will help primary care surgeries, often the starting point for a carer’s journey, to recognise carers and know where to signpost them for support in their communities.
• We will work in partnership with schools to help them identify children and young people who care for a family member to ensure they are acknowledged and supported and referred to the appropriate professionals.
• We will work to identify barriers and improve equality of access for carers to ensure that underrepresented groups are supported.

We will measure delivery of this outcome through:

• % of adult and young carer population on the carer register for Staffordshire
• Number of identified carer champions in primary care surgeries and schools
• Ethnicity data from the carers support provider