We have a small selection of beautiful hand crafted Christmas Cards available for sale. Lovingly made by one of our volunteers.
The are priced at 3 cards for £1. If you would like some let us know.
We have a small selection of beautiful hand crafted Christmas Cards available for sale. Lovingly made by one of our volunteers.
The are priced at 3 cards for £1. If you would like some let us know.
Text and picture from https://www.carersuk.org/
Each year Carers UK promotes Carers Rights Day where we’re joined by hundreds of organisations and thousands of individuals raising awareness of caring, helping to identify carers and signposting them to information, advice and support.
Whether someone has recently become a carer, realised they have been caring for a while without support or has been caring for someone for many years, it’s important they understand their rights and are able to access the support that is available to them whenever they need it.
Carers Rights Day empowers carers with information and support. It helps them to feel confident asking for what they need and challenge things when their rights are not being met, whether that be that in the workplace or education, in accessing health or social care, when interacting with other professionals or at home.
If you are an unpaid carer, you’re entitled to certain rights which may help you access services, look after your health and wellbeing or could provide vital information and support in looking after your partner, family member or friend.
Carers UK constantly campaigns for better rights for the UK’s unpaid carers, including securing landmark new rights for those juggling work with their caring responsibilities. And we’ll carry on working to see new or improved rights established, to help make life better for carers.
If you are juggling work with your caring responsibilities, you have the right to request flexible working. Carers UK has a range of information on what your rights are and how to make the request with your employer. Visit our website for more information.
If you provide unpaid care, you can ask your GP practice to identify you as a carer on your patient record and might be called forward for priority vaccines or other public health campaigns. Carers UK has information on how to talk to your GP – and even provides a useful letter template to download and use. You can find them on our website.
It’s essential to find ways to look after your health and wellbeing and one way is to exercise your right to request a free flu jab. If you are the main carer for an older or disabled person, who may be put at risk if you became ill, or if you are in receipt of Carer’s Allowance, you should be offered a free flu jab. Speak to your GP or local pharmacist or see our website. Carers are also a priority group for accessing Covid booster jabs this winter.
If you look after an older or disabled person, the law – under the Equality Act 2010 – protects you against direct discrimination or harassment because of your caring responsibilities. (In Northern Ireland carers are protected under the Human Rights Act and Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act.) Understanding your rights can be useful if you feel you have been treated unfairly because of your caring role – and you may also be protected under other laws including disability or sex discrimination legislation. You can read more on our website.
Many carers find it easier to continue in their caring role if they can get some assistance. If it appears that they have needs for support, they can have a carer’s assessment. In Scotland, this is usually referred to as an adult carer support plan and in Wales it is often called a carer’s needs assessment. If you’re over 18 and provide regular unpaid care for someone, you’re entitled to a carer’s assessment – it doesn’t matter how much or what sort of care you provide. Why not watch our animation on having a carer’s assessment?
If you are a carer and the person you care for is being discharged from hospital, the hospital must identify and consult with you, where possible. Carers UK has produced handy fact sheets for carers in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (including a Welsh language version) which explains your rights and what you can expect, helping relieve some of the stress that can occur when someone close to you has been in hospital.
The Carer’s Leave Act is something Carers UK has been campaigning for tirelessly for many years and we expect it will become law in 2024. It will give employees juggling work with unpaid care a legal right to request up to five days unpaid leave every twelve months, which will help many manage some of the day-to-day challenges of being a carer – enabling them to stay in employment.
With the introduction of the new Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act anyone, including unpaid will be able to ask their employer for changes to their working hours, times of work, or place of work, from day one. And being able to ask for a different flexible working arrangement more than once a year will be a huge help too. We expect the Act to become law in 2024.
Carers UK is campaigning for a future where all carers are properly recognised, valued, and provided with the support they need to live a life beyond their caring responsibilities. We are working to achieve the following goals:
If you want to keep up to date with our campaigns, please sign up here: carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/our-campaigns/
We have two two events on Friday 24th November at our Caring Together premises, 127 Woodhouse Street in relation to the buses in Leeds. that we hope you can make.
See below for details:
1pm Cllr Kayleigh will be with us to listen to your concerns/grievances around the current bus services in our area, the infrequency and inconsistency of services and the re routing of the 38 & 39 due to works in the area.
and then at
1.30pm Bus Reform – Join the consultation with The West Yorkshire Combined Authority that will inform a decision by the Mayor of West Yorkshire in whether or not to introduce the Proposed Franchising Scheme in March 2024.
The renovation work on Charing Cross Square – outside Caring Together is starting today and is expected to last about 12 weeks.
The plans involve resurfacing the square, adding trees and a new sign, putting steps at the front of the square to the pavement (near the bus stop) and changing the steps at the back of the square—taking away part of the large step area to create more space as you enter the square from the back and repairing the steps to make them safer.
We hope that, when finished, this will be a big improvement to this area, but it is bound to create some disruption in the short term. We have been promised that access to the shops and to Caring Together will be maintained throughout the works.
Here at Caring Together we have lots of activities happening over this time and we are intending to continue these as planned if we can. If you are planning to visit us, or attend an event/activity, and you have any concerns about it, please contact us.
Our Winter Newsletter has gone out to members and supporters. You can read the newsletter and inserts below
Issue-102-Winter-2023It was a great few weeks having a bit of fun getting ready for our mini ‘Light Night event’. We got to channel some of inner creativity. At the event itself we also got to enjoy some homemade chilli and jacket spuds and desert. The room looked wonderful with all the lighting and new glow in the dark additions not just on the tables either….
We had the pleasure of welcoming a good number of our members, students from the Leeds University Union Music Impact in the Community, the Lord Mayor of Leeds and friends, Hilary Benn and some funders to our AGM Friday.
It is the first one in our premises! It was lovely, it was ended with some wonderful music followed by a cuppa and food.
Thank you everyone in the community for coming along and ‘Caring Together’, what a year.
The University have asked us to share this to see if anyone is interested in taking part.
They are conducting some research to investigate pedestrians’ crossing behaviour while interacting with Automated Vehicles and they are particularly looking for people aged 65 or over to take part.
The study will take approximately 1.5 hours in total, and participants will receive £20 in cash as a token of appreciation. They can also help with transport costs.
All participants need to:
• Have been in the UK for at least a year
• Be a regular pedestrian
• Aged between 18-35 or above 65 years old
• Have normal or corrected to normal vision
• Not be pregnant
• Not use any cardioactive medications, such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, or anti hypertensives
• Not suffer from claustrophobia, severe motion sickness, feelings of disorientation, serious mobility problems affecting the back, knees and hips.
You can apply to take part here: https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/hi-drive-hiker-criteria-oct