Sheffield City Council have been involved in creating The Young Carer, Parent and Adult Carer Strategy (the Strategy). They wanted to know what it was like being a carer in Sheffield ,including the difficulties and challenges. Nearly a thousand carers responded via questionnaires, meetings, phone calls and one-to-one discussions. A range of expert partners responded to the feedback from carers by writing the Strategy, which is a plan to improve carers’ lives by addressing the challenges/issues that carers described.
The Strategy sets out the vision that Sheffield becomes a ‘city where carers are valued and have the right support to continue to care for as long as they want to’. If you would like to read the Strategy in full, the document can be found here .
Sheffield City Council has produced a You Said, We Did Update to show that they value carers’ input and expertise and how they have acted upon it.
