To provide support to adult carers throughout Cornwall.

• To encourage and enable GP practices & Primary Care Trust to identify and support their patients who have a caring role.
• To work in partnership with Adult Care and Support, Health and other relevant organisations in order to meet the unmet needs of carers.
• To ensure that Adult Care and Support and GP Practices have awareness, understanding and better knowledge of the needs of carers; that carers’ expertise and competence is acknowledged and willingness is demonstrated to regard them as partners in the caring process.
• To improve accessibility to information, advice, counselling, support and assessment for all carers.
• To provide information on existing and new services to carers, in particular for carers who may have special requirements, for example, their ethnicity, lifestyle or health issues.
• To continue to forge new links and improve communication channels between statutory and voluntary organisations.
• To consult with carers on the effectiveness of the service.
• To ensure close partnership working with the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust and Adult Care and Support who jointly fund the Carers’ Support Service.