The Carer Support Team offers a range of support for carers of adults living in Wolverhampton.

A Carer is anyone who provides support for a relative, friend or neighbour without payment. The person that you look after may have a mental health need, learning disability, physical and sensory disability or may be an older, vulnerable person.

The Carer Support Team can support you in your caring role by offering the following:

• Practical information, advice and guidance
• Carer's Assessment
• Benefits advice
• Signposting
• Emotional support
• Carers Emergency Card
• Carer Training
• Carers Cafe at the Lighthouse, Evie's Kitchen, Big Venture Centre
• Information about Breaks for Carers
• Short Break caravans

Carer Support Team
Wolverhampton Central Library
Snow Hill
City Centre
Wolverhampton
WV1 3AX

Telephone: 01902 553409
Email: carer.support@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Website: www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/carers

A duty officer is available at Central Library on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00am to 12:00pm and on Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00pm to 4:30pm.

Follow us on social media @WolvesCarers

Carer Support in Wolverhampton - Information for Informal Carers (PDF, 746Kb)
Carers Emergency Card - Your Guide and Application Form (PDF, 878Kb) 

There is a wealth of information on the NHS website about carers and caring. Below are some links into the site that we hope you will find useful.

• A guide to care and support

  Information for carers and people who have care & support needs.

• Caring for someone

  Advice on providing care, medicines etc.

• Care after hospital

  Providing care for people who have been recently discharged from hospital.

• Taking a break

  Caring for someone can be a full-time job - find out about accessing breaks and respite care.

• Support and benefits for carers
  

  Caring for someone can be a full-time job - find out about accessing breaks and respite care.

• Work and Disability
  

  Guidance, support and help with employment issues.

  Being a Young carer

  Advice for carers 18 or under and their entitlement to support

Help claiming benefits, looking after your bank balance and understanding the legal issues of caring.

• Benefits for carers

  Directing carers to the benefits that can help them in their caring role

• Benefits for the under-65s

  Advice and information on helping the person you look after get the benefits that they are entitled to.

  Benefits for the over-65s

  Advice and information on financial support for older people with a disability or illness.

• Carer's Assement
  

  How your benefits maybe affected after the death of the person you look after and what happens to their benefits

• Other benefits

  Advice for carers and the people they are looking after on claiming a whole host of other benefits unrelated to their disability or caring

Carers UK

Here to make life better for carers

20 Great Dover Street
London SE1 4LQ

t: 020 7378 4999

e: advice@carersuk.org

w: www.carersuk