Carers and caring
The Carers Pathway
The information on this page is currently under review.
Each local authority has to determine the levels of impact/risk and needs which trigger the duty to provide support - acknowledging that there will be circumstances that merit the exercise of the power to provide support to people whose needs fall below the local eligibility threshold. The Act establishes a process to determine whether a local authority has a duty to provide support to an individual carer to meet their identified needs, as illustrated by the Carer Support Pathway.
The diagram above shows the steps taken once a carer is identified:
- Carer identified
- Adult carer support plan (ACSP) or young carers statement (YCS)
- Can needs be met by support to cared for person or universal services?
- Local eligibility criteria applied
- Support planning identified
- Agree final ACSP/YCS
- Provide support
- Review
- Carers and caring
- Our approach to carer support
- Carers rights, our duties and requirements
- What is local eligibility criteria?
- The Carers Pathway
- Assessment of eligible needs
- What does substantial or critical mean?
- Funding to support carer’s outcomes
- Adult Carer Support Plans (ACSP)
- Carer’s role supporting discharge from hospital
- We must establish and maintain an information and advice service for carers
- We must prepare and publish a short breaks service statement
- Information and support for carers
- We have a duty to prepare a local Carers Strategy
- Resources for carers
- Glossary