The Family Inclusion Toolkit, which is being developed by charity The Children's Society, promises to provide a one-stop shop of best practice advice for practitioners. Due to launch next month, the resource will explain how to identify the needs of refugee young carers.
It raises cultural issues and suggests why refugee young carers may be less likely to seek help from support services.
Helen Leadbitter, senior project worker for family inclusion at The Children's Society, explained that refugee and asylum-seeking families are often unaware of support services and can rely on children to act as interpreters for the family.
She said: "Children should not be expected to translate inappropriate information, including health and social care assessments. The toolkit can point practitioners to services such as phone translation."
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