Skip to the content
Choose your content
UK NI Scotland Wales

Join us Login Forum Media enquiries
Choose your content
UK NI Scotland Wales

Being Heard is our self-advocacy guide for carers


Self-advocacy is about speaking up for yourself. It’s about getting your voice heard and effectively communicating your own interests. Our guide has been designed to help you communicate your needs with professionals, understand your rights and look after your wellbeing.

 

 

Main guides

Caring can be rewarding but also very isolating. You may not know what help to ask for, how to ask, or indeed who to ask. 

Being Heard  can help you get your voice heard when you care for someone. Self advocacy is also about being able to have your own needs listened to, as well as speaking up for the person you care for. 

As well as being a solid source of information on your rights as a carer, the guides offer helpful tips on how to speak up and look after your wellbeing. For useful accompanying resources, such as a complaints letter template, see the links below. 

Click the relevant link below to download the  Being Heard  guide:

 

We have some printed copies which you can order from our  online shop.  

  

Other useful resources

The guide also features extra resources to explore: 

 

Watch our video for more self-advocacy tips

 

This is for general information purposes only. Correct at time of recording (October 2023).

Latest updates

Press Release
Dummy image
Carers UK welcomes the opportunity to engage with the government's 10 Year Workforce Plan
26 September 25

The 10 Year Workforce Plan will support the 10 Year Health Plan, published in July this year. Its aim is…

Press Release
Dummy image
Carers UK responds to IPPR paper 'Who Will Care? How Can We Meet The Scale of the Care Challenge?'
19 September 25

A new report published by the IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) highlights a rise in the number of people…

Press Release
Dummy image
Carers UK responds to Guardian article reporting that the Government is considering compensation for carers hit by the Carer’s Allowance scandal
14 September 25

Helen Walker, Chief Executive at Carers UK, said: 

“This is very good news to hear that the Government is discussing…

Press Release
Dummy image
Carers UK's response to the 2024 NHS Adult Inpatient survey
09 September 25

Emily Holzhausen CBE, Director of Policy and Public Affairs responds to this recent survey.

Got a question about caring?

Every day we hear from people who need help with looking after a friend or family member

Become a member for free

Joining Carers UK is free and takes just a few minutes.

Back to top