#CWConf23 #FindingSolutions Hearing from Deputy Minister for Social Services Julie Morgan acknowledging the vital and often unseen role of unpaid carers.

Heddiw roedden ni yn Cynhadledd Gofalwyr Cymru! #CWConf23 #Finding Solutions

Jayne Newman, an unpaid carer from Newport, shares her personal experience as an unpaid carer with the conference. “We don’t get any training in this role”. “ We’re on call 24 hours a day”. #CWConf23 #FindingSolutions

Looking forward to getting started at our Carers Wales Finding Solutions Conference online and in Cardiff this morning. Great day of speakers and workshops lined up @CWconf23

Attendees are asking our Expert Panel a range of questions, from Carers Allowance to nursing pay and carer resilience #CWConf23 #FindingSolutions

Claire issues a call to action to delegates “Make at least one change which will directly help unpaid carers”, asking attendees to fill in commitment forms before they leave
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Heléna Herklots, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, addresses the conference. She calls for greater promotion of human rights & carers rights and strengthening of rights in care home settings #CWConf23 #FindingSolutions

Our Expert Panel Q&A is continuing, with questions asked about local authority messaging around eligibility criteria and identification of young carers in school settings
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We need sustained funding for community and voluntary groups, says Older People’s Commissioner for Wales at the #CWConf23 .
Heléna says we need the right data and evidence to scrutinise service performance in Wales. #FindingSolutions

#CWConf23 draws to a close after an afternoon of workshops for in-person and online attendees on a range of topics, from improving social work practice to looking after carer health, preparing for the Carers Leave Act to using new technology to assist carers #FindingSolutions

Older People’s Commissioner outlines her efforts to ensure people who are not online still receive information.
Turning to rights, she says “We are at risk of the normalisation of rights not being upheld”
Older People’s Commissioner for Wales #CWConf23 #FindingSolutions

An Expert Panel Q+A begins, with Alyson Thomas from Llais Cymru, Helen Whyley from Royal College of Nursing, Helen Walker from Carers UK and Nick Davies, unpaid carer.
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Older People’s Commissioner for Wales highlighting the importance of meaningful engagement with unpaid carers during today’s keynote speech, as well as the importance of ensuring that public services ensure that resources aren’t only made available digitally #CWConf23

Great opening speeches @ #CWConf23 So much yet to be done to further support unpaid carers in their incredible, and often unrecognised or undervalued, contribution to society.

A great morning at the Carers Wales conference. RCN Wales Director helen whyley took part in an expert panel Q&A on pressing issues impacting carers in Wales.

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Today our director Darren Hughes is attending the Carers Wales conference #CWConf23

Take a look at their #StateofCaring survey results and reports, shining a light on the health, wellbeing and financial struggles of carers 👇

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Heléna Older People’s Commissioner for Wales calls for changes to the language used around caring, action to ensure people are not deterred from seeking help and carers policies in the workplace to help carers balance employment and care #CWConf23 #FindingSolutions