Faint o'r 370,000 o ofalwyr amcangyfrifedig yng Nghymru sydd wedi derbyn asesiad gofalwyr?
The 2011 census identified just over 370,000 carers providing more than an hour of unpaid care a week.
It will not be possible to determine how many of these carers had an assessment by local authorities, due to differences in definitions of carers and the timescales in which the data were collected. In addition, not all carers will be in contact with local authority social services.
The Welsh Government will be monitoring the implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act through national annual data collections.
Local authorities have submitted data in relation to carers receiving support in 2016/17 and this will be published on 31st October 2017. The publications will include data for the:
- Number of assessments of need for support for adult carers undertaken during the year; and
- Number of assessments of need for support for young carers undertaken during the year.
Guidance to local authorities on all of the annual data collections can be found on the Welsh Government website, available at:
http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/local-authority-social-services-data-collections/?lang=en