The Health and Social Care Partnership’s strategic plan for unpaid carers, as approved by the Integration Joint Board earlier in the year, has now been published.
Supporting unpaid carers by getting services right for the cared for person is a strategic objective identified in the Partnership’s Strategic Framework 2023-2026.
Living Well in the Scottish Borders - A Plan for Adult Unpaid Carers 2024-28 (Living Well) sets out a clear vision and approach on how the Partnership aims to meet this objective over the next four years by, for example, focusing on carer identification and recognition and the provision of information, advice and communication for carers.
Living Well was created in partnership with the Borders Carers Centre and Unpaid Carers in the Scottish Borders and was informed by the Carers Needs Assessment, carried out in 2022.
Lynn Gallacher, Chief Executive Officer at Borders Carers Centre
“The Carers Centre, along with unpaid carers, has had a key role in the development of Living Well which we hope will be a positive step forward in ensuring that unpaid carers living in our area feel recognised, informed, valued and well supported, with the right support at the right time not only for themselves but also for those they are caring for.”
Chris Myers, Chief Officer of the Scottish Borders Health and Social Care Partnership
“Living Well is a brilliant step in helping us better support unpaid carers in the Scottish Borders. The input of unpaid carers in this plan has been essential in creating a vision of a Scottish Borders, which recognises and listens to carers as our partners. Their contribution has also helped us identify clear steps to take in our plan, to improve how we work and help ensure that all unpaid carers and the people they care for can live their lives to the full.”
More information
- Living Well is available to download from our website.
- To find out more about available support, visit the carers pages of our website.
- Images are available to download from our Flickr page