Schools & Colleges

We work with educational settings to develop and embed support for young people with a caring role. This support enables young carers to be identified and reduce the stigma of being a carer.

Young carers do an AMAZING job and often feel very proud of the job they do – rightly so. It can help them build some valuable life skills and many are very resilient, caring and mature beyond their years.

Schools award

Our Schools Award is designed to help schools work in partnership with our service to improve identification and support to young carers by:

  • Identifying a member of staff responsible for young carers
  • Liaising with staff and young carers to identify the support they would like from their school/college and our service
  • Facilitate young carer awareness raising sessions to pupils and staff via assemblies, PSHE lessons, CPD
  • Develop network groups to develop communication and share best practice between settings
  • Facilitate a range of wellbeing programmes

There is growing evidence that when young carers are identified and offered appropriate support in schools, their emotional wellbeing and educational and employment outcomes will improve.

Without support, many young carers struggle to juggle their education and caring role and find it difficult to concentrate at school.

  • 1 in 20 miss school because of their caring role
  • 60% are bullied at school and many feel socially isolated. Being bullied during the later years of primary school has a strong association with lower attainment in secondary school
  • 1 in 12 young carers spend more than 15 hours a week caring for a parent or sibling – that is equivalent of 2 full working days
  • On average, young adult carers achieve 9 GCSE grades lower than their peers (equivalent to 9 Cs versus 9 Bs)
  • Young adult carers are twice as likely to be NEET (not in education, training or employment) than their peers

High School Assembly

Support for young carers in early years

This webinar has been designed to support Early Years Professionals gain an understanding of the role of a Young Carer and how working to a whole family approach can reduce the impact of the caring role on the developing child. The webinar provides places to pause and watch two videos below created by the Centre For Early Childhood. Details of these videos can be found beneath the webinar.

Shaping Us: Layla's Story

Early Childhood Science: Our Social Network

If you would like to talk to us about the School Award, how you can develop your schools support, or for more information on CPD Training, please contact us or chat online with an adviser.

Education Connected

Education connected is our termly newsletter aimed at professionals working in Schools and Colleges. The newsletter is produced by the team supporting Young Carers & Young Adult Carers and provides a regular update on the services available.

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