Family and friends who provide extra care and support to someone close to them, a family member or friend, who has extra needs due to frailty, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability.

Using this term both helps us to raise awareness about your needs and promote support and services that may be available to you.

Swindon has published its own Carers Strategy, which guides how we support carers locally.

This section has information to enable you to find out what assistance and help you may be eligible for.