Manchester-based carers and people with disabilities will be able to find out more about their rights this Carers’ Rights Day with an online event featuring leading social care provider The Disability Syndicate.
The Disability Syndicate is presenting online at a ‘Listening to the People’ event on November 20 – Carers’ Rights Day – to help carers and those who are cared for to understand the wealth of support available.
Carers will also get the opportunity to find out more about the UK’s only discount card just for the social care sector.
The Blue Sky Social Care Card was launched a year ago in the Houses of Parliament with the help of TV journalist Kate Garraway – who recently starred in The Celebrity Traitors – and MP Catherine Atkinson.
Fully verified and vetted, the card functions as an ID card recognising the vital role of unpaid carers for the first time.
It also allows carers to access a wide range of perks and discounts, such as free entry to Paradise Island Adventure Golf in Manchester.
The Disability Syndicate works with Salford City Council to deliver high quality support services connected with direct payments – benefits paid straight to people who need carers or personal assistants to allow them to live independently in the community.
As well as that, the organisation provides a wealth of support aimed at the millions of paid and unpaid carers in the UK including free talking therapies, fortnightly carers’ clinics, welfare rights advice, wellbeing initiatives, signposting to local services and training.
“We hope that people living with disabilities and carers are able to take advantage of our drop-in events that we are providing round the UK to offer much-needed support this Carers’ Rights Day.
Raj Johal, managing director of The Disability Syndicate
“There are so many people living in this country who are either living with disabilities and not accessing the practical support they would really benefit from, or who are providing care services – often unpaid – and not accessing their rights.
“This Carers’ Rights Day is all about helping people know what they are entitled to so we can all live in society with dignity, being properly recognised for the work we do and the lives we lead.”
Costing five pounds annually, there are now around 10,000 people in the UK who hold a Blue Sky Social Care Card.
Carers Rights Day aims to raise awareness of the rights to which the UK’s 5.8 million unpaid carers are entitled.
It is estimated that thousands of people become unpaid carers daily in the UK and many are unaware of their legal rights and the support available in benefits for their important role in society.
The Disability Syndicate is giving a presentation via Microsoft Teams from 11am – 12pm on Thursday November 20.
The organisation will also be providing input to an event in London and is running free drop-in events in Derbyshire.
