Sentences with phrase «members as carers»

The local authority is exempt from prioritising family members as carers in these circumstances.

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This is why it is vitally important that as MPs and staff we have an awareness of mental illness and know the best ways to support constituents who live with mental illness, as well as their friends, family members and carers.

Family group conferences, which are an effective approach in supporting family members to come forward to be assessed as a potential carer for the child, are still not routinely offered pre proceedings in most parts of the country.

The journal is seeking papers including research articles, case studies and reviews of literature that explores how interventions involving parents and other carers in the family as change agents can influence the functioning of family members across diverse populations, with the aim of furthering the understanding of how to best support the mental health of children and adults.

A new survey of over 500 kinship carers — grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members and friends who've taken on care of children who aren't able to live with their parents — has revealed that as many as 94 % say caring has caused financial hardship, despite many stepping in to keep children out of the local authority care system.

As educators, parents, carers, community members, we need to think about and look after our own mental health.

Through their daily contact with parents, carers, family members, school staff, as well as with their peers, children learn about the social world and about the rules, practices and values that support it.

It can include extended family members such as grandparents and kinship carers.

Support groups in the North East have helped a groundbreaking project supporting grandparents and other family members who are raising a relative's child (as «kinship carers») reach a new milestone — supporting its 500th carer.

A groundbreaking project supporting grandparents and other family members who are raising a relative's child (as «kinship carers») across the north east of England was celebrated at an event in Newcastle yesterday, ahead of a new bid to expand the project across the country.

Family members of people with bipolar disorder suffer from high rates of carer burden.43 A group psychoeducation program for carers helped to reduce carer burden as well as manic and hypomanic relapse.44, 45 This highlights the benefits of considering the patient's social milieu and the way the illness affects meaningful relationships.

The court may also give directions for the assessment of family members as possible future carers of the child or preparation of expert evidence at this hearing if this has not already happened.

The Lifelong Links model includes tools and techniques for professionals to use to search for and find family members (known or unknown to the child) and other adults (such as former foster carers or teachers) who care about the child.

Community members who act as carers too need support from other community members as well as from special programs.