Source: ABC News Online

Carers have welcomed a Labor promise to increase funding for services. (Reuters: Michaela Rehle, file photo)

Under the $800,000 package, a new body would be set up to help carers find and access services that can help them.

Helen Denning from Carers ACT says her organisation has been providing a similar service without any financial help from the Government.

She says it would be better for the Government to handle the work.

"This is something that we've been asking for and that we have been providing within the organisation although we're unfunded and it does stretch us a little," she said.

Ms Denning says at the moment it is hard for carers to find the time and the information that allows them to access services that could assist them.

"Carers [are] time poor and because they're time poor when they hit what they perceive to be barriers and areas that appear to be unknown to them, they can just basically walk away, go back to the caring situation and be doing without," he said.

The funding for the advocacy service is part of Labor's $8 million package for disability and carer services.