Equality & Diversity Carer Support

Our Equality & Diversity Carer Service is a dedicated, well-established service supporting carers from minority ethnic communities and other disadvantaged backgrounds across North and South Lanarkshire.

Our multilingual staff works across Lanarkshire to identify, engage, inform, advise and support carers to access available services.  This includes:

• Provision of information, advice, and support in multilingual formats (the current staff team offers support in 5 languages)
• Carer Training provision offered in different languages
• Carers Wellbeing Call service delivered by volunteers in three languages
• On-demand language access in more than 240 languages through spoken interpretation via Language Line and written translation
• Engagement, involvement and representation of carers from minority ethnic communities in local and national forums
• Partnership and collaboration in Lanarkshire, nationally and UK-wide
• Awareness-raising, information and cultural events
• Empowering, enabling and tackling inequalities

We have a dedicated phone line to support carers who speak Urdu, Punjabi or Hindi: 07780926595

LGBTQ+ Carers

Many LGBTQ+ carers experience additional challenges such as financial hardship, emotional and physical ill-health, relationship breakdown, discrimination, harassment, loneliness, and isolation.

We offer one-to-one support to LGBTQ+ carers, information, opportunities to support carers' health and well-being, and access to short breaks.

Training

It’s important to look after your own health and wellbeing, as well as the person you care for.

Lanarkshire Carers training programme covers a range of topics to help carers feel confident in their caring role and look after their own health and wellbeing.

Lanarkshire Carers Carer Training Programme covers a range of topics and the courses featured in our programmes are released every three months.

Some of the different courses featured in our programme will:

• Help you manage stress in your caring role
• Learn more about the condition of the person that you care for
• Help you maintain your overall physical and mental health & wellbeing

  28 January 2025 - Arts & Crafts for Minority Ethnic Carers (5 Week Course)