Who has helped to develop the Action Plan?
A whole system approach is being taken to develop this action plan. Carers should be considered in the delivery and collaboration of health, council services and the voluntary community sector. This means that the working group have been looking across the Camden Borough Partnership for groups and services to speak with; understand work that has happened or is already happening with carers; ways to join up work; insights to develop the plan and gaps where we may be able to work together. These coproduction activities were also used as another opportunity to reach and speak with more carers, and ensure carers know how to connect with support as and when it is needed. Many of these groups were visited multiple times. The organisations and affiliated groups involved included:
Camden Carers
- Camden Carers Voice
- Young Adult Cares strategy for Camden Carers
- Black Carers Collective
- Making Carers Count – a project to identify and support carers from minoritised ethnic communities (predominantly the Somali, the Bengali and the Chinese community)
- Camden Carers Health & Lifestyle Check event
Mobilise – a national, digital carers service that is available to carers in Camden.
Adult Social Care & Council
- Planning Together – a partnership board for people with learning disabilities and family carers to meet with people who manage services they may use.
- Supporting People, Connecting Communities Steering Group and Board – groups that steer, deliver, and oversee a programme of change projects that contribute to the delivery of the Supporting People, Connecting Communities strategy.
- Councillor Anna Wright, Cabinet Member Briefing
- Meetings with Councillor Larraine Revah, Carers Champion
- Adult Social Care service meetings
- Mental Health Partnership Board (jointly shared between health and social care) – carers were discussed within the mental health needs assessment and the drug and alcohol needs assessment.
- Connecting with the refresh of the Autism strategy.
- Care and Support at Home which is looking at the way care and support at home is delivered.
- Adult Social Care data
- Young carers strategy group
Health
- Local Care Partnership Board – a Camden Borough Partnership group leading on the integration of health and care. They are developing a work programme called ‘Start Well, Live Well, Age Well’, which sets out priorities that reflect the support people need in different stages of their lives. Supporting carers through the action plan and partnership board, will form part of this programme.
- Mental Health Carers Partnership Board – a carers group from the North London Mental Health Partnership made up of services and carers from Camden and Islington. They are working on a carers strategy for Mental Health. They are also leading on work to implement the Triangle of Care. In 2024, this Board will be replaced by a North London Mental Health Partnership User Alliance that will include carers and mental health practitioners from the boroughs that make up North Central London.
- Carers Council – a group for carers as part of the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). They are also leading on work to implement the Triangle of Care and have a carers charter.
- Camden Patient and Public Engagement Group.
Others
- Age UK Camden – Big Team meeting which is a networking event for the VCSE sector and health and council services.
- Events with the British Somali Community Centre and Bengali Workers Association are planned.
These activities will continue, to raise the profile of the action plan and to reach more carers.
