The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre has recently started to offer digital group meetings for people who take care of someone with multiple disabilities and who speaks Arabic. The aim is to reach out to more carers in Sweden and…
To celebrate its 30 years anniversary, Carers Finland produced a video about the aspects of family care. Four family carers tell their personal stories in the video. Furthermore Tarja Halonen, former President, one of the founders of Carers Finland, Anu…
Migrant carers in common with carers more generally, work tirelessly in support of those they care for, often without recognition and to the detriment of their own health and well-being. The project group has been working from Jan 2019 to…
Take part and register to the final ENhANCE Conference, the EU-funded Erasmus+ project that has designed and delivered a European Curriculum for Family and Community Nurse (FCN) - a key actor in the new Primary care model. The ENhANCE project…
On 1 September 2020, the First Minister announced that there would be an Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland as part of the Programme for Government. The Review was chaired by Derek Feeley, who was supported by an…
The Erasmus+ funded TOGETHER project aims to raise awareness on young carers and to support them and their families. Young carers are children and young people providing significant or substantial care, assistance or support to family members who have a…
Pårørendealliansen (Norwegian alliance for informal carers) pushed for the need for a Norwegian strategy for carers. The Government took the challenge in 2018 and promised to deliver it in 2019. It was postponed once over to 2020, and then delayed…
Shortly after the start of the pandemic ZOOM-projects were started in order to reach two groups of people. People with dementia and their care giving relatives. Both groups were particularly affected by the pandemic and the resulting restrictions, they had…
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) would like to hear about your experiences regarding the challenges that you faced in your day-to-day work during 2020 (“civic space”). If you are a civil society organisation working in an EU…
Each year since 2012, our member Carers Scotland, on behalf of the Scottish Government and in partnership with the national carer organisations, organise an annual Carers Parliament for carers from all across Scotland. The first ever virtual Carers Parliament took…
