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Carers Parliament 2025 Registration Form

Carers Parliament 2025
Thursday 30th October
Apex Grassmarket Hotel, Edinburgh
or join online

This is a hybrid event meaning you can attend either in person or virtually. However, as of 15 August 2025, in person places are fully booked. If you would like to attend in person, please tick both boxes in the relevant section and we will add you to the waiting list for an in person place.

This years Carers Parliament will take place on the 30th October at the Apex Grassmarket Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket Edinburgh, EH1 2HS.

This years Carers Parliament funded by the Scottish Government and supported by Scottish & Southern Electricity Network.

Please select your preferred method for attending the Carers Parliament 2025. Note: As of 15 August 2025, in person places are fully booked. If you would like to attend in person, please tick both boxes in the relevant section and we will add you to the waiting list for an in person place. If a place does not become available, you will still be able to attend online.

The Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing Tom Arthur MSP and the Health and Social Care Spokesperson for COSLA, Councillor Paul Kelly have both been invited and we expect their attendance.

If you are attending in person, we also offer expenses to carers for the costs of travel and where required, replacement care, accommodation (for those travelling further) and subsistence.

Please note: the event will be photographed and filmed.

Completing this form will register you for the Carers Parliament. We will contact you within 6 weeks with further details of the event. You do not need to do anything further, once you have completed this form.
1.First name(Required.)
2.Surname(Required.)
3.Please select your preferred method for attending the Carers Parliament 2025(Required.)
4.Have you attended the Carers Parliament before
5.Email(Required.)
6.Telephone number
7.Please tell us the council area you live in.  This is to help us ensure that we are reaching carers in all areas of Scotland
8.Are you a:
Support you need to attend in person

Travel, accommodation and replacement care:
Funding is available to support carers to attend. This will include reasonable travel costs e.g. standard class public transport wherever possible (rail, bus, ferry). If this is not practical, we provide a set mileage rate should you need to drive. There is limited parking at the venue and other public parking is available nearby. For carers on the Islands, we can cover standard air fares.

If you are attending in person, please complete the next section to provide further details.
  • We will provide travel expenses for all carers/former carers who require this to attend. This is normally provided following the event but if the costs mean you need this in advance, please let us know in the section below and we will provide prompt reimbursement or may be able to arrange on your behalf.
  • We can provide replacement care to enable you to attend. If you require this, please let us know and we can, for example, arrange to pay your service provider directly.
  • Accommodation will be available for those carers who cannot travel to the event and back on the same day. This would primarily be carers from remote and rural areas. Carers Scotland will seek to organise hotel accommodation on your behalf.
9.I will require travel expenses
10.I will require replacement care
11.I will require overnight accommodation
Catering:
12.Please provide details of any specific dietary requirements or allergies you have.  To enable the venue to make arrangements and label food for individuals, we need to know this information in advance.
13.If you have a severe food allergy, particularly if this can result in anaphylaxis, please provide details, so that we can enable the venue to make appropriate arrangements to ensure that the food provided to you has no ingredients to which you are allergic.
Accessibility and other support:
14.We will seek to make the Carers Parliament accessible to all carers, including endeavouring to meet the needs of carers with disabilities, sensory impairments or health conditions and to carers who have specific language or cultural requirements.

The venue itself is accessible with lift and ramp access.

If you require additional support to attend the Carers Parliament, please let us know how we can help in the box below.
Carers Scotland organise the Carers Parliament on behalf of the National Carer Organisations and funded by the Scottish Government. Carers Scotland is part of Carers UK. Carers UK is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what we do with it, no matter how you interact with us. You can read our privacy statement on the Carers UK website

The data we collect in this form is held by Carers Scotland and used solely for the purposes of the Carers Parliament and we will only contact you in relation to the Carers Parliament event, unless you give us express permission to do otherwise.

The data on your caring role and equalities information are used for the purpose of:

* evaluating the event so that we can identify any gaps in representation e.g. caring role, age group, ethnicity in order to try to rectify this in the future. This will not include any identifying information.
* reporting on groups that attended the Carers Parliament. This will not include any identifying information.

For using the information for any other purpose beyond administration, evaluating and reporting on the event, we must seek your consent. The following questions below allow you to give express consent to this.
15.I am happy for Carers Scotland to contact me to: