Carers: Young People

(asked on 14th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department still plans to publish a Carers' Strategy; and whether young carers will be included in that strategy.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 22nd November 2017

The First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office, Damian Green, has announced this month that the Government will publish a Green Paper on care and support by summer 2018, setting out its proposals for reform.

Carers are vital partners in the health and social care system, and they need to be at the heart of discussions to build consensus on a long-term, sustainable settlement for social care. Instead of a new carers strategy, the Green Paper will include a clear strategic focus on unpaid care and how our society supports all carers as a vital part of a sustainable health and social care system.

Over the coming months Government will work with experts, stakeholders and users to shape the long-term reforms that will be proposed in the Green Paper, and this work will include specific engagement with carers and representative groups. In addition, once the Green Paper is published, it will be subject to a full public consultation.

Alongside this, Government remains fully committed to supporting carers to provide care as they would wish, and to do so in a way that supports their own health and wellbeing, employment and life chances. Ahead of the Green Paper’s publication, the Department will continue to lead a cross-Government programme of targeted work to support carers, including young carers.

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