
6 top tips for young carers on how to stay on top of your schoolwork
Teni - our young adult carer intern in the Communications Team - shares her thoughts on how young carers can juggle schoolwork alongside their caring role.
Teni - our young adult carer intern in the Communications Team - shares her thoughts on how young carers can juggle schoolwork alongside their caring role.
For more than 25 years, Carers Trust’s partnership with the National Garden Scheme has made a huge difference to the lives of unpaid carers around the country with support, advice, respite and grants.
Carers Trust organised an employability event for young carers and young adult carers called 'Young Carers Movin’ On Day' on 15th August as part of the Young Carers Futures Programme.
Teni – a young adult carer who is currently an intern in the Communications Team at Carers Trust – shares her personal and thoughtful tips on how other unpaid family carers can make time for their mental health needs alongside their caring role.
Our young adult carer interns, Elena and Teni, share their experiences of the launch event of the Youth Employment Toolkit at the House of Lords last week, hosted by the Youth Futures Foundation who fund our internship programme here at Carers Trust.
Kim, the young adult carer development worker at Falkirk and Clackmannanshire Carers Centre, reflects on a year of working with young carers.
Making Carers Count (MCC) is a multi-partner programme aiming to identify and support carers who are under-represented amongst the community groups we currently reach and who have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
There’s been no shortage of hand-wringing about the UK’s workforce shortage. Jeremy Hunt has posed as yet another “back-to-work” Chancellor who has talked at length about tackling the twin challenges of the burgeoning out-of-work benefit bill and business’s struggle to recruit for post-pandemic vacancies.
The Scottish Government recognise that there are at least 30,000 young carers in Scotland. The number of young carers recorded in schools across Scotland is just over 5,000 and research carried out by Carers Trust and local young carers services show that 1 in 5 children in a class has caring responsibilities.
My name is Louisa and I am coming to the end of my internship at Carers Trust. I have been part of the Young and Young Adult Carers Team working on my own project within a bigger project called Making Carers Count.
Andrew Crompton will be cycling across three continents, fourteen countries and ten time zones on a gruelling eight-month ride from Manchester to Melbourne, with the aim of raising £500,000 for Carers Trust and Bolton Lads and Girls Club.
Jigsaws help a Newcastle unpaid carer put life back together
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