Carers Strategy Reference Group

The Richmond Carers Strategy Reference Group is accountable for monitoring the delivery of the Richmond Carers Strategy 2020-2025.

The RCSRG meets quarterly.

Aims

• To deliver and monitor the action plan of the current Carers Strategy.
• To feedback information to carers and stakeholders from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (LBRuT), NHS Commissioning and Voluntary Sector organisations involved with the provision of carers services.
• To ensure that staff, carers and the general public are engaged in developing, monitoring and informing the Carers Strategy and development of services within Richmond.
• To set up working groups to deliver the specific actions and developments as agreed by the Group.  
• To ensure good outcomes for carers and ensure that the proposed changes are delivered within the resources available.
• To set up an appropriate system for monitoring and measuring the impact of the strategy.

The RCSRG is made up of representation from partners including Integrated Care Board, Voluntary Sector organisations including Richmond Carers centre, Adult Social Services and Unpaid Carers.

To better recognise and support unpaid carers of all ages, we are working to build on the existing Richmond Carers Strategy 2020-2025 by creating a Carers Charter that expresses the strategy themes using carers own words.

We believe that the most powerful way to shape this Charter is by directly involving the people it will affect - capturing the voices of carers and young carers.

More information

Find more information and support available for carers.

Contact the RCSRG

For more information on the RCSRG activities, or if you are interested in joining, contact Steve Shaffelburg at steve.shaffelburg@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk.