If you support someone who couldn't manage without your help, then you are one of the 89,000 carers living in West Sussex

Unpaid carers include anyone who is eligible for a Carer’s Allowance, or anyone who is the main carer for someone whose welfare may be at risk if their carer fell ill.

Yes, across Sussex the NHS is including as many eligible parent carers as possible. In Sussex parent carers are eligible if they are caring for a child or young person up to 25, with a special educational need or disability that has a big effect on them every day.

As a guide, this usually means your child has, or is eligible for, Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Education Health and Care (EHC) plan, a Compass or iGO Card, or is accessing services such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Yes, Sussex CCG are currently working with carers’ organisations and Local Authorities to identify a specific route to invite young carers to specific vaccination centres that are administering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.

Currently, there are two ways that you can access a vaccination:

1) Register with your local carers’ organisation, and we will help you access the local vaccination services via your GP led local vaccination service or,

2) Book online via the National Booking Service nhs.uk/covid-vaccination or call 119 (however bookings are suspended nationally in April).