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Find out what support is available to you if you look after friends, partners or neighbours in Stockport.
If you're caring for someone you're entitled to an assessment of your own needs, regardless of the needs of the person you look after.
To receive support from us, your needs will be assessed against the Care and Support Eligibility Criteria.
If you're a child or young adult who spends time looking after someone in your family or a close friend, Signpost Stockport for carers may be able to help you.
If you're a carer or look after someone, you may have to manage their personal and financial affairs.
Find information about how to get help in an emergency and how to plan for a crisis or emergency.
Find information about the benefits and financial support that you may be entitled to as a carer and where to go for advice.
Find information about your rights as a carer, how to assert your rights and how to take action if your rights or needs, or those of someone else, are not being met.
Carers Partnership
The aim of the partnership is to improve support for, and recognition of, carers to help reduce the workload on the health services.
Think Carer Strategy 2024 to 2029
The Think Carer Strategy is a plan for Stockport as a place and a community. The intention is that it will become the focus for work to improve recognition of and support for carers in Stockport over the next 5 years.
Safeguarding adults
Everyone has the right to live in safety, and free from abuse and neglect. Here's how to report it and prevent it.