Carers Star
For people caring for others
Who is the Carers Star for?
The Carers Star has been developed for use with a wide range of carers, both full time and part time. ‘Carer’ can refer to anyone who is providing unpaid care for a relative or other person, whether they live with the person they care for or not. This can include young carers but it is primarily designed for adult carers.
The Carers Star helps carers and the services supporting them identify progress towards key outcomes like health, the caring role, managing at home and time for yourself, and give clarity on where to focus next.
- Do you work with young carers?
If you work with young carers may find that My Star, the Outcomes Star for children and young people, is more appropriate than the Carers Star for carers under 18. If your service works with both adult carers and young carers, your Outcomes Star licence will give you access to both the Carers Star and My Star, as well as full training and support in implementing them both.
Using the Outcomes Star approach
The Carers Star is designed to be used as part of the Outcomes Star approach. That’s why we provide essential training and ongoing support to all licenced practitioners, so you can embed the Outcomes Star approach in your practice.
How does the Carers Star work?
The Carers Star covers seven key outcomes areas to help carers optimise their quality of life and continue to be effective in their caring role by following a five-stage Journey of Change.
You and the carers you support will fill out the Star together, and use it to better identify where their strengths lie and where they might need more help, and to make plans for moving forward along the journey.
Outcome areas
Health
The caring role
Managing at home
Time for yourself
How you feel
Finances
Work
The Journey of Change
01
Cause for concern
02
Getting help
03
Making changes
04
Finding what works
05
As good as it can be
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Always rooted in expertise and experience
The Carers Star was developed with the Carers Trust and SEEL (Social Enterprise of East Lothian) with part-funding through the Scottish Government Change Fund.
