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Over the past seven years, the main initiatives that the SCP
has taken forward or been directly involved in instigating include:
 Information Days in 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2006, organised jointly with Sheffield
Social Services and Community Health Sheffield NHS Trust or
Sheffield Care Trust.
The Key Information Pack was jointly produced with Sheffield Social Services and
Sheffield Care Trust. It was distributed to all family carers of
people with learning disabilities over the age of 16 years
and all relevant statutory and voluntary services in and around Sheffield.
Elsie's Story - a video showing the story of one older woman caring for her daughter
for over 50 years.
Her daughter was 40 before the family found out she was
entitled to services and support.
This video is used as an awareness-raising tool with workers and services
to enable them to understand and reflect on the lifetime
experience of many older family carers.
 Carers Voices Count is a video awareness tool about five different carers,
(including an older family carer of someone with learning disabilities
and a carer of a young person with autism),
produced by the SCP on behalf of the Carers Joint Planning and Action Group
to be distributed widely around Sheffield as a training and awareness tool.
The SCP worked with the City Wide Alarms scheme in Sheffield
to produce additional forms to capture information about people
with learning disabilities and family carers using the service.
Now, if one of their alarms are triggered, they are aware if
there is a family carer and person with a learning disability
in the house and can use the additional information to ensure
they can respond appropriately.
Of course, not everything runs smoothly for the project and workers
have to be very responsive to issues that arise on a daily basis.
The SCP project workers are constantly mindful that there is a lot
more need than they are able to meet at present.
However, we are always looking for innovative ways forward
(and more funding!) and we have a big list of things we would like
to be able to do -
including running groups in more areas of the city and having
specialist support workers who can focus on working with families
going through the transition from children to adult services,
family carers of people with more complex needs and family carers
of people with autistic spectrum disorders.
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