Young Carers Action Day aims to shine a light on the pressures and challenges young carers up to the age of 25 face on a daily basis. The UK-wide campaign is designed to raise public awareness of the incredible contribution they make to society. A mix of local and national initiatives are taking place across the country to help their voices be heard, as Carers Trust's Andy McGowan explains...
Caring can be as rewarding as it is challenging. Right now, many unpaid carers are dealing with even greater challenges as the coronavirus outbreak continues to affect all our lives. This year's Carers Week: Make Caring Visible, throws that fact into sharp relief.
Gareth Howells is CEO of Carers Trust. In this guest blog, Gareth explains how coronavirus is making the lives of unpaid carers even more difficult than before, and what Carers Trust is doing, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Social Care and others, to support them during the pandemic.
Today is Young Carers Awareness Day, an annual event led and organised by Carers Trust. The day aims to raise awareness of the pressures experienced by young carers – children who need to look after someone in their family, or a friend, who is ill, disabled or misuses drugs or alcohol.
To mark the day, we invited Gareth Howells, CEO of Carers Trust, to reflect on the importance of young carers, and how we can all do more to support them.
Sharon Allen OBE, formerly CEO of Skills for Care and now bringing her many years of experience and expertise to the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, explains the care provider's highly effective holistic and community based approach to palliative and end of life care.
Help DHSC, Carers Trust and a broad range of care and support organisations find new and better ways to identify and support young carers. Anita Wadhawan from our Social Care Strategy and Project team has all the details of their …
In the second of two blogs to mark Carers Trust’s Young Carers Awareness Day, we are proud to present this blog from Josie Higginson, a young carer since the age of 4. Now 12, Josie doesn’t really think of herself …
Young Carers Awareness Day is the annual day of recognition for the UK's estimated 700,000 young carers. This year, Carers Trust shine a light on the high proportion of infant young carers suffering from broken sleep to help look after …
We’re very grateful to Carers Trust’s Laura Bennett for drafting this blog on the train home from Bournemouth after “an exciting time joining colleagues at NCAS 2017 to share our joint work with Carers UK on Carer Passports.” We were …
Workshop: Working together to develop carer friendly communities Wednesday 11 October 12.10 – 1.10 Solent Hall "With an ageing population, and more people living longer with disabilities into older age, attention continues to turn to how we support this positive …
