Clap for carers – tonight 8pm!

People across the UK are being encouraged to take part in the Clap for Our Carers campaign and show appreciation for all those working on the frontline in health and social care. The media is quite rightly highlighting the vital role of the NHS, but we mustn’t forget the equally vital role of social care.

If you are interested in working at home, supporting someone you like and needs your care and support – find out more about becoming a Shared Lives carer. There are 160 new vacancies across the UK and local Shared Lives services are recruiting now.

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Social care covers the personal care and practical support many people as a result of age or physical disability, a learning disability or mental illness require with their day-to-day living activities. Those very people we are working tirelessly to protect and support.

Many Shared Lives carers are now living constantly with up to three people, as well as their existing family, struggling to buy food for their larger households and unsure about the impact on their earnings as they are self-employed. As their membership organisation, we know Shared Lives carers are doing an incredible job, creating imaginative ways to keep active and calm at home. We are offering our carer support team, resources and FAQs in our members’ accounts and launching a temporary subscribers service for Shared Lives Updates.

During these unprecedented times, let us join together to show our appreciation for the entire health and social care workforce and express our thanks and recognition for the valuable work they do to protect and keep the most vulnerable safe.

Careworkers as keyworkers are an essential frontline staff, together with the NHS working to protect and save lives of the most vulnerable in our country.

Please change the narrative and include social care staff in this important campaign.

Let’s hear it for Shared Lives carers!