Financial Wellbeing and Resilience Support for Unpaid Carers

Financial Wellbeing and Resilience Support Service for Unpaid Carers will provide dedicated financial support to carers whose caring responsibilities are impacting their income, employment, financial stability or ability to manage household costs.

The service is not intended to replace or duplicate existing carers information, advice, wellbeing services, peer support, carers assessments or carers groups already available through other commissioned services. It is intended to complement, enhance and provide additional capacity to those services by providing a specific financial lens on carers lives.

The provider of this service should work closely with existing commissioned carers services to ensure that carers are referred to these services so they will receive additional support in their caring role in areas such as wellbeing, emotional support, access to support groups, peer support, breaks and statutory carers assessments. The providers of existing commissioned carers services should also be referring carers to this service where specialist financial support is required.