Carers
One in ten people in the UK care for friends or family members. We offer support to people in caring roles.
Caring for someone can be very isolating. We offer advice and relief to carers.
If you look after someone with a physical or mental illness or disability, a learning disability or frailty who needs support to live at home, then you are a carer. The care you provide is not paid or provided through a voluntary organisation. Find out how to apply for care services.
Services for young carers of parents, siblings and other relatives with physical illness or disability, learning disability, drugs and alcohol addiction or mental health problems.
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This page was last updated on 24 October 2007
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