Carers Week 2025
What is it that Carers and support workers do?
Rehability UK stands with and supports Carers Week. Our video shows the typical day of Rehability UK’s National support worker of the year, Sona Simon. We recognise that unpaid carers often do everything our paid carers do and much more.
Our Day Centre in Thurmaston also provides much-needed respite care for Adults who live with their full-time carers. Speaking of the people they support in the Day Centre, manager Rainey Spencer-Tayler said, "We often help the full-time carers by signposting them to other services that can help. For example, one person we support needed an evac chair for their home environment. We successfully helped them find and access the right people to get that sorted for them. We also helped another person by advocating for their medical needs, such as getting vital blood tests organised and ensuring we did the desensitisation therapy before the tests so that no extra stress was put onto the full-time carer."
Caring for adults with Learning Disabilities, autism, and Mental Health challenges requires all sorts of people with gifts and abilities. Often, the people who come to work with us have a rich and varied background in caring for close relatives, so we stand ready to help by employing those who wish to make full use of their skills in caring.
Rehability UK fully supports Equality in Care, and we salute those unpaid carers who are the backbone of our society. We back the calls to reduce poor mental health, improve social connection, and ensure that those who miss out on education, careers, and personal lives because of the care they provide can build their lives meaningfully.
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