Carer support services and resources…
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We provide a range of services for carers who live in North Lanarkshire and the professional partners who encounter carers.


What is a Carer?
Do you support someone regularly who has a disability or health condition including long term conditions, mental illness, or addiction?
This could be your child, spouse, other family member, friend, or neighbour. The support you provide could be as simple as picking up medications and doing shopping, to assisting someone with tasks in their home, providing personal care like washing and dressing, attending medical appointments or being entirely responsible for the welfare and wellbeing of the person you help.
You probably don’t think of yourself as a Carer. Lots of people don’t recognise themselves as a carer as they are simply being a parent, or a partner, or a good friend, but caring regularly over a period of time can impact your own life in many ways. You deserve help and have rights to be supported while you are caring.
If this is you, then you are a Carer and one of 45,300 Carers living in North Lanarkshire…
It’s common that people hear the word ‘carer’ and think that only means people who are paid by local authorities, charities, and companies to provide care in people’s homes, nursing homes or day support services. What we are describing here is a different kind of carer, the ‘unpaid carer’ who supports someone outside of paid employment. We provide support to ‘unpaid’ carers, not to people who are in paid employment with ‘carer’ as their job title. Unpaid carers can claim the Carer Support Payment benefit if they are eligible and if they do, they are still classed as ‘unpaid’, claiming a benefit doesn’t change that status.
CARER SUPPORT NETWORK (CSN)
NLCT leads the Carer Support Network (CSN), a coalition of organisations across North Lanarkshire. Meeting quarterly, this network unites diverse sectors, including University Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire (UHSCNL), carer organisations, advocacy providers, and the vibrant 3rd Sector.
CARER INFORMATION AND ADVICE
At NLCT, we are committed to empowering carers in North Lanarkshire by providing them with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to thrive in their vital roles. Our Carer Information and Advice service offers a lifeline of support tailored to meet the unique needs of unpaid carers.
CARERS VOICE, YOUR VIEWS MATTER
At NLCT, we are dedicated to creating meaningful opportunities for carers to engage and participate in shaping the services and policies that impact their lives. We achieve this by facilitating involvement at three key levels:
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL FAMILY SUPPORT
North Lanarkshire Council: Education & Families have commissioned North Lanarkshire Carers Together to deliver a Family Support Service to support parent carers and their child or young person living at home who has a need for additional support.
RESOURCES
Accessing timely and accurate information can empower you to make informed decisions about the care you provide. This knowledge can boost your confidence in managing your caring role, understand the needs of the person you care for, reduce feelings of isolation and stress and support your physical and emotional wellbeing.
CARER AWARE WORKSHOPS
At NLCT, we believe that knowledge is a powerful tool for both carers and those who support them. Our Carer Aware Workshops are designed to ensure unpaid carers, professionals, and community groups understand carers’ rights, challenges, and the support available to them.
A note on Kinship Carers
Kinship care’ is a term used for the raising of children by grandparents, other extended family members, and adults with whom they have a close relationship with, such as godparents and close family friends because their biological parents are unable to do so. NLCT recognise that with kinship care arrangements, these are often a result of trauma, illness, or addiction, and this is likely to have impacted on the child being looked after. If the child has additional needs, either from illness or disability, or has experienced trauma which affects their day-to-day life, our organisation will support the kinship carer regardless of any arrangements made with statutory services.

The NLCT Team are here for you...
Being a carer might be very new to you if someone in your life has had a recent illness or become disabled, or you may have helped someone for many years. Either way, we at NLCT can keep you right. Our Board of Directors and our dedicated staff are either in a current caring role, or have been at some point, and therefore know what you are going through and how you might be feeling.
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