Black and Minority Ethnic Carers
Black & Minority Ethnic Carers
- Translation Service & Multikulti
- Immigration Advice
- Asian Carers
- Race Equality & Diversity Team
- Education
- Health
- Useful Links
Translation Service
Tameside Council are able to offer an interpreting and translation service via Customer Services.
Multikulti
Read in your own language about:
- Benefits: what's available and how to get them
- Caring for someone coming out of hospital
- Getting products that help make someone's life easier
- Carers Allowance and the Carer Premium
- Improve your mental well-being
There are other areas of information on:
- Marriage application from abroad
- Students
- Dependent relatives in the country
- Debt and money
- If you have come to the UK from abroad can you claim cash benefits?
- What is direct payment?
- Refugees
- Visitor's Visa
- Bailiffs & Council Tax
- How to deal with hire purchase debt
- Employment contracts
- Holiday entitlement and pay
- Pay
- Understanding depression
- How to get legal advice if you have recently arrived in the country and want to work
- What to do about debts when someone dies
- Credit reference agencies
- Applying as homeless
- Domestic violence
- Emergency housing
- Finding a private rented place
- How to claim housing benefit
- You've been asked to leave
- Noisy neighbours
- Lost your job?
Click here to get to find out more www.multikulti.org.uk 
Immigration Advice
For information on immigration issues contact: www.tameside.gov.uk/immigration
0161 342 2810/2284 
0161 342 3007 
Send a Message to Interpreters
There's also general information on www.multikulti.org.uk
Asian Carers
Help for South Asian Carers in the Tameside area
- Support Group for Asian Carers
- Carers Course for Family Carers from Tameside's South Asian Communities
- Maddad Ghar Project
- Useful Links for Asian Carers
Support Groups for Asian Carers
The Adult Services Racial Equality and Diversity team in Tameside offers Asian Carers the opportunity to meet and discuss topical issues in a warm and friendly environment where light refreshments are provided free of charge.
Meetings are held every 3rd Tuesday of the month at Tameside Carers Centre, 50 Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne. On occasion, outside guest speakers are invited to come along and share specific information. All Asian Carers are welcome to drop in for a chat, a listen or to express anything that they might want to bring up. Obviously, people using 'mother-tongue' languages are catered for and encouraged to attend.
Carers will have to make their own way to the venue and also their own 'minding' arrangements for the person they care for.
Carers Course for Family Carers from Tameside's South Asian Communities
If you are a Carer from Tameside's South Asian Community then you are entitled to access a free course about understanding being a Carer.
The course runs for two hours on one day per week for twenty weeks and offers:
- Free transport for the Carer and care services for the cared for person in the family whilst the Carer attends the course
- Language support is available
- There is a recognised certificate awarded on successful completion from the Open College Network
Topics covered:
- Who is a Carer?
- How people cope with change
- Sources of conflict
- Effective communication
- Where do I get support from?
- Providing a safe home environment
- Personal care
- Food & Nutrition
- What to do in an emergency
- Aids and adaptations
- State benefits and the Carer
- Employment prospects for the Carer
- What do Adult Services provide?
Strategic activity of the team looks at the development of services across the whole sector of racial groups. The majority of activity is directed towards the predominantly South Asian populations of Tameside, as these are the largest of the racial groups within the borough.
Maddad Ghar Project
Maddad Ghar means 'to provide' and this project is a community support service provided through Tameside Adult Services to meet the social care needs of Asian communities in Tameside (for both adults and children).
In broad terms the service offers:
- Support with all aspects of daily living
- Appropriate daytime activities
- Opportunities for respite (having a break)
- Provide a bridge to other services
To enquire whether you can receive a service, please contact Adult Services By Phone 0161 342 2400 By Fax 0161 342 2460 
By Minicom 0161 342 3602
in Person call into our offices on Waterloo Road, Stalybridge - no appointment is necessary
Send a Message to Race Equality
If it is more convenient for you, you can make an appointment using our on-line diary
Useful Links
Tameside Carers Centre, 50 Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 7JX
0161 342 3344 0161 342 3720 0161 342 3721 Send a Message to Carers Centre
For advice, guidance and support on caring issues for all.
Patient Information Centre
Based at Tameside General Hospital. The Centre has information in Asian Language on health & social care issues for Tameside General Hospital patients and their Carers.
0161 331 5332 infopatient@tgh.nhs.uk
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
Provides information for people in the Asian community and also the African-Caribbean and Chinese community with contact numbers to National Organisations and links to helpful Carer sites.
For News, Sport, music, competitions, message boards, Asian life, Ramadan fasting times. Including hourly updated bulletins in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Mirpuri, Punjabi and Urdu. To listen live you may need to download the free Real Player
This is a national charity based in London, working with Carers and professionals to help minority ethnic people in the community with a range of issues.
The Afiya Trust, 27-29 Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall, SW8 1SY 020 7582 0400 020 7582 2552 webmaster@afiya-trust.org
Multikulti
This site provides information, advice, guidance and learning materials in community languages, including Bengali, Farsi and Gujerati.
Race Equality & Diversity Team
The (RED) team is part of Adult Services and supports the department's responsibilities to:
- Promote equality
- Eliminate unlawful discrimination, and
- Promote good relations between different racial groups.
The RED team offers:
- Advice, guidance and support on how to meet the cultural and language needs of Black and Minority Ethnic service users, carers and communities in Tameside.
- A bi-lingual co-worker scheme which supports social workers and assessors when working with Black & Minority Ethnic Carers. This ensures the Carer and family receive culturally appropriate assessments.
Strategic activity of the team looks at the development of services across the whole sector of racial groups. The majority of activity is directed towards the South Asian populations of Tameside, as these groups are the largest of the racial groups within the borough.
Education
The Indian Community Centre offers computer classes for Asian speaking community members.
Computer courses are also being held at St Ann's Learning Place in Ashton. For details of these courses please contact the Race, Equality & Diversity Team on 0161 370 1179. They will be able to check that language support is available, if needed.
The Ethnic Health Team is based at Tameside General Hospital and is available to help people attending hospital who may not be able to speak English. The service is also available in NHS community clinics and within the home. For further details contact:
www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/pages/EthnicHealthTeam.asp
Tameside Hospital switchboard tel: 0161 331 6000 Ethnic Health Team tel: 0161 331 5149/5150
An other useful contact is NHS Direct which has a 24-hour helpline 0845 4647.
Useful Links
All links are external
- Afiya Trust
- Afro-Caribbean Clubs & Organisations
- Black and Asian History Map
- Carers Information
- Manchester Chinese Community
- Princess Royal Trust for Carers
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