What We Do
We provide information, advice and guidance, and a wide range of support services designed to help carers continue in their caring role for as long as they choose and reduce the impact the caring role can have on a carer’s own health and wellbeing.
We work directly with individual carers to discuss their concerns and needs and design a tailored personalised support package.
Support available includes:
- Specialist 1-2-1 and group support
- Carers Assessments
- Information, advice and guidance on range of matters relevant to the caring role, including benefits
- Support to take breaks from caring, including befriending and peer support
- Support to access health and wellbeing services
- Support to access community resources, networks and services
- Newsletters detailing local groups, activities and training
- Online Carers Community Network
- Carers Help and Talk (CHAT) Line and Pen Pal services
- Support to access professional counselling
- Volunteering opportunities as ‘Friends of Knowsley Carers’, including volunteering for the CHAT Line and Pen Pal services
- Carers Awareness Briefings for professionals
Contact Us
Fill out the online form and register here
Call us on: 0151 549 1412
Who is a Carer
A carer is someone who provides unpaid care, for a few hours a day or round the clock, to a friend or relative who could not manage without their support. The care they give may be due to age, illness, disability, mental health problems, or substance misuse.
Carers’ lives are often complex - many have other commitments as well as their caring role, such as work or school, and sometimes they live with the person they care for or sometimes they call in to help. These situations can create challenges which may impact on carers’ financial or educational opportunities, as well as their own health and wellbeing.
Carers sometimes do not realise they are a ‘carer’ and feel they are simply being kind, by looking after a family member or friend. Carers provide huge benefits to the person they care for, as well as wider benefits to the NHS, Social workers and society as a whole, by providing a free, essential support service.
