Carer Passport Scheme

What is the Carer Passport Scheme?

A Carer Passport is a record that identifies a carer in some way and sets out an offer of support, services or other benefits in response. A Carer Passport helps carers to be  identified, recognised and supported as part of the day-to-day life of an organisation or community.

At Carers UK, we have been working in partnership with Carers Trust, with funding from the Department of Health and Social Care, on a project designed to help local areas introduce Carer Passports in five key settings: hospitals, employment, community, education and mental health trusts.

You can watch a video explaining the Carer Passport Scheme.

The Carer Passport website makes the case for setting up a Carer Passport scheme in your community or organisation, giving you resources and guidance to help you transform recognition and support for carers. If you would like to develop an existing Carer Passport scheme, the site is also full of good practice examples and tools to help.

Carer Passports can:

• increase identification and support for carers
• raise awareness of caring
• provide a concrete, easily understandable offer of support or services
• make carers feel valued
• provide help/assistance to managers or key professionals
• provide a short-cut so carers don’t have to repeatedly explain themselves
• help organisations benefit from carer involvement.
  
  

Seeking more details?

For more information, visit IACO.

Or visit the Carer Passport website.