PROJECT
Young Carers in Schools
PURPOSE
To help schools identify and support young carers, and recognise and share good practice
FUNDING
From a four-year £1.5m Big Lottery Fund grant to the Children's Society's Young Carers in Focus programme and a £377,512 Queen's Trust grant to the Carers Trust. The trust is putting £49,200 towards the programme this year from a Thomas Cook Children's Charity grant
BACKGROUND
The Children's Society and the Carers Trust have long been concerned about young carers' low levels of self-confidence, mental wellbeing and GCSE attainment.
"For years, carers told us schools were a key place where they needed support, but often felt they couldn't ask for it," says Children's Society national young carers' lead, Helen Leadbitter. "Schools needed to identify them and support them better. There was some really good practice, but we needed a way of sharing that more effectively and helping them build on it."
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