Ceredigion County Council’s Carers Unit is the first in Wales to be awarded with a Gold Investors in Carers award.

The programme is a quality assurance scheme that ensures that organisations and services are identifying and supporting unpaid carers.

The scheme covers carers of all ages and situations. They include Carers under the age of 18, young adult carers from 18 to 25, parent carers who care for a child with a disability or mental health issue, sibling carers and older people caring for each other.

To win its gold level, the Carers Unit demonstrated an advanced understanding of carers’ issues, an extremely high level of service delivery to carers, how they have supported cultural change through working with and supporting council teams to be more carer-aware and they had to demonstrate clear evidence of results.

Heather West, Ceredigion County Council’s carers development officer, said: “We are really delighted, and I am very proud of the team.

“The panel was particularly impressed with the range of work undertaken, working across all parts of the council, and the evident corporate commitment to embedding carers as a priority across all areas. One of the panel members said it was really tough to achieve gold, the highest award.”

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