Helping schools to support young carers

Please keep reading for details of Young Carers Awareness Day 2020, free training to help schools to support young carers and a request to complete a short questionnaire to help Warwickshire Young Carers improve understand how they can develop their ways of working to improve the support they provide to young carers across the county.

Young Carers Awareness Day - 30 January 2020

In line with Young Carers Awareness Day on the 30 January, Warwickshire County Council will be joining forces with its partner, Warwickshire Young Carers. The joint initiative will see campaign messages around the profile of a young carer and the duties that a young carer undertakes daily.

In addition, we will also be promoting the ‘Count Me In’ campaign – led by the Carers Trust, the aim of the campaign is to encourage education providers to do more to proactively identify young carers and to ensure that they receive the recognition and support they deserve.

People are being asked to post images of themselves or their setting with the tagline ‘A young carer is…’

Here's a great example below that we spotted on Twitter from Stockingford Academy:

Get involved on social media with #CountMeIn, #YoungCarersAwarenessDay and #Warksyc.

The campaign will run in the lead up to 30 January and make use of all social media channels, Twitter and Facebook.

Please make sure you follow, like and retweet the posts:

Twitter: @WarksYC    @Warwickshire_CC

Facebook: @warwickshirecountycouncil    @warwickshireyoungcarers 

Warwickshire Young Carers School Award Consultation

Warwickshire Young Carers is currently undertaking a consultation to understand how they might work better with education providers to further support young carers in schools and to develop their offer. They would therefore be grateful if you would take five minutes to fill in their short questionnaire:

Warwickshire Young Carers Schools Work Consultation Questionnaire

Free training to help schools to support young carers

Warwickshire Young Carers offer free training to schools and other partners working with young carers to help raise awareness of the role that young carers play and the support available to them.

Dates for Young Carer Awareness Training and School Lead Training are available throughout the year - please check the Eventbrite page for details and to book your place.