{"id":26378,"date":"2020-06-12T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=26378"},"modified":"2020-06-12T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:57:30","slug":"carers-week-8-14-june-2020-making-caring-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/carers-week-8-14-june-2020-making-caring-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Carers Week 8-14 June 2020: Making caring visible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Carers Week 2020: Making caring visible<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26562 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carers-week-banner.png?resize=400%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"181\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carers-week-banner.png?resize=300%2C136&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carers-week-banner.png?resize=150%2C68&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carers-week-banner.png?resize=768%2C348&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carers-week-banner.png?w=846&amp;ssl=1 846w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/181;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring and<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>highlight the challenges unpaid carers face<\/li>\n<li>recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK<\/li>\n<li>help people who don&#8217;t think of themselves as having caring responsibilities to identify as carers and access much-needed support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26563 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carer-definition-small.jpg?resize=350%2C351&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"351\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carer-definition-small.jpg?w=324&amp;ssl=1 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carer-definition-small.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carer-definition-small.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 350px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 350\/351;\" \/><strong>People with ME want to say thank you to everyone who helps them when they need support!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We want to make Caring Visible to help carers get the information and support they need. This guide outlines 10 steps to help carers think about the support they might need:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carersweek.org\/images\/Resources\/Resources_2020\/CW_2020_Caring_Information_Leaflet_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are you looking after someone unpaid?: essential information for unpaid carers<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carersweek.org\/images\/WG_2020_Caring_Information_Leaflet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ydych chi&#8217;n gofalu ar \u00f4l rhywun yn ddi-d\u00e2l?: gwybodaeth bwysig I ofalwyr di-d\u00e2l<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Find out more about caring from:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"mailto:helpline@wames.org.uk\">WAMES helpline<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/carers.org\/\">Carers Trust\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carersuk.org\/wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carers Wales<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ageuk.org.uk\/cymru\/our-work\/carers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Age Cymru<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlga.gov.uk\/welsh-local-authority-links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local council<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Learning for Living &#8211; using your skills<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The free interactive e-learning programme, Learning for Living, helps carers develop greater understanding of the unique skills and knowledge they use on a day-to-day basis in their caring role, and how they can transfer these skills to the workplace. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carersuk.org\/wales\/news-campaigns\/news\/free-e-learning-programme-boosts-confidence-amongst-unpaid-carers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Available in Welsh or English.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carers Week 2020: Making caring visible &nbsp; Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring and highlight the challenges unpaid carers face recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK help people who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/carers-week-8-14-june-2020-making-caring-visible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-26378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-carers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-6Rs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26378"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26565,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions\/26565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}