Carers Week 2023: Supporting Carers in the Community

From 5 to 11 June, we celebrated Carers Week to highlight the importance of Glasgow’s unpaid carers. 

Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities. This year’s theme for Carers Week was ‘Recognising and Supporting Carers in the Community’, and it was about coming together to make sure carers get the information and support they need to be able to care for their loved ones. 

Celebrating unpaid carers during Carers Week 2024

From 10 to 16 June, we celebrated Carers Week to highlight the importance of Glasgow’s unpaid carers.

Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities. This year’s theme for Carers Week was ‘Putting Carers on the Map’, aiming at increasing visibility for carers with decision makers, services, employers, communities and businesses.

Helping Carers know their Rights - Carer's Act Launch Event

Around eighty carers from across Glasgow came to the City Chambers on 3 April for the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's event to launch the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 which takes effect from 1 April 2018.

The Act extends and enhances the rights of carers in Scotland to help improve their health and wellbeing, so that they can continue to care, if they so wish, and have a life alongside caring.

New Partnership with Glasgow Carers Launched Ahead of Carers Rights Day

On the lead up to Carers Rights Day on 21 November, our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership hosted an event to mark a new partnership with Glasgow Carers; a carer’s led group, founded by Marie McGinn in April 2024, to amplify the voices of carers.

The event was held at Glasgow City Chambers and brought together carers, HSCP staff, carers organisations and community representatives.

Glasgow Celebrates Carers Week 2022

Carers Supported to Prepare Emergency Plans 

Hundreds of unpaid carers in Glasgow have been helped to draw up emergency plans in case they get ill and are unable to look after their loved ones.

The city’s Health and Social Care Partnership is encouraging adult and young carers to plan ahead to ensure alternative arrangements can be put in place quickly if needed.

Celebrating Carers Week - 8 to 14 June 2020

We are celebrating Carers Week from the 8 to 14 June 2020.  This week is dedicated to people across the country who provide support to friends, family and neighbours who couldn’t manage otherwise.

The theme of this year’s Carers Week is “Making Carers Visible”.  This is an opportunity to engage with both staff and the general public to ensure that people know about the help and support that is available.

Fred Beckett, Carers Lead for Glasgow City HSCP recognises the invaluable contribution of unpaid carers in Glasgow all year round.

Sharing Experiences of Supporting Carers in Glasgow and Catalonia

Staff from carers organisations in Glasgow and Catalonia recently shared their experiences and highlighted the importance of support for unpaid carers.

Xabier Ballesteros Olazabal, Director of the Social Services Centre, Barcelona Council has been living in Glasgow, researching for his doctorate.  Xabier was a community development worker in Catalonia and founding member of the community mutual support group, ‘La Colla Cuidadora’ [The Carer Gang]. 

Glasgow Marks Carers Rights Day 2022

On Thursday 24 November, we marked Carers Rights Day and raised awareness of the unsung heroes of our communities, unpaid carers.

This year, the campaign focused on the many ways in which caring costs affect unpaid carers – from carers’ wellbeing and ability to access health services, to costs to their finances and employment options, to the current cost of living crisis that’s being felt even more acutely by carers throughout the UK. 

Carers Week 2021 - Making Caring Visible and Valued

June saw the country celebrate Carers Week to highlight the importance of unpaid carers. From 7 to 13 June, Local Carers Centres in Glasgow City raised awareness and organised activities for people who provide everyday unpaid support to friends, family and neighbours who can’t manage otherwise.