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HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Decision Report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1) Summary of Decision Area

1.1. A report was submitted to the Executive Member in July 2008 seeking approval of the draft Hampshire Young Carer's Strategy and related Action Plan. Support was also sought to carry out a formal consultation process in order to gain feedback from key stakeholders. Approval was granted.

1.2. This report relates to the consultation undertaken between November 2008 and February 2009 on the draft strategy and the feedback which has informed the proposed final strategy and action plan which can be seen as Appendix C. It describes the direction that is required in order to sustain and further develop services available to this group of children and young people living in Hampshire, as well as identifying the partner agencies required to support this agenda.

2. Issues Covered in Report

2.1 The revised strategy has been developed in consultation with a wide range of people including those who work in both the statutory and third sector, young carers themselves and their parents.

2.2 The strength of the revised strategy is that it clearly identifies, through the action plan, 5 specific areas of work. It also acknowledges that this work cannot be undertaken by any one agency and that the success of this strategy rests in seeing real joint working between a number of agencies/organisations. Within Hampshire County Council it is identified in the action plan that a joint working protocol needs to be developed as this could have a direct impact on helping achieve the vision of the strategy.

2.3. Since the publication of the previous Young Carers strategy (2005-2008) there has been further government guidance and legislation and these have been reflected in this new strategy. The need for improving services and increasing accessibility to support was highlighted by the Joint Annual Review undertaken in 2006 and indeed it can now be reported that all 11 district council areas in Hampshire have an identified Young Carers project or co-ordinator. The strategic development work continues to be undertaken by The Children's Society on a contracted basis. This contract will expire on 31^st March 2009 when the contract will go out for full tender.

3. Recommendations

It is recommended that:

The Executive Member for Children and Families approves the Hampshire Young Carers strategy (2009-2012)

MAIN REPORT

1) Contextual Information

1.1. A Young Carer is a child or young person (up to the age of 18) whose life is affected by looking after someone with a disability or long-term illness. The person they care for may be a parent, a sibling, another family member or a friend, but need not necessarily live in the same house as them. The care they give may be practical, physical and/or emotional.

1.2. The 2001 census informed us there are some 3,300 young carers within Hampshire. It is suggested that those who are formally identified as being a Young Carer number significantly more than this and indeed this is a core issue highlighted by the JAR and recognised by schools, Health, Children's Services and Young Carer projects and is addressed in the strategy action plan.

1.3. For those children and young people who wish to access support due to the issues that can affect them by being a young carer, there are varying choices about what is available to them. Some are supported within schools or access a specific young carer project, or both. Significant work is being undertaken in meeting the needs of young carers by individual projects - there is now a project that provides support to each district council area in Hampshire. Of these 10 projects, 8 are provided by the voluntary sector and 3 are within Hampshire Children's Services Youth Teams.

1.4 Significant research has been undertaken over a number of years on a national level that clearly identifies the detrimental impact that caring can have on a child/young person. Some young carers are as young as 5 years old and may care for a family member for their entire childhood and into adulthood making many sacrifices along the way. Young carers do not have the same life opportunities as their age peers. School attendance can be disrupted and therefore achievement lower, as well as these young people not feeling able to access further and higher education or employment as it conflicts with their need to be at home.

1.5 The vision of this strategy is two fold: to identify and significantly reduce the numbers of young people undertaking inappropriate and harmful caring roles, by reducing the incidence of families with unmet care needs, relying on the care of a child, which impacts on their well being and life chances;

To ensure local young carer projects and other targeted services who work directly with young carers should be available to provide safe, quality support to those children who continue to be affected by any caring role within the family.

This strategy strives to reflect the actions needed and ethos required to support these children/young people in achieving the 5 Every Child Matters outcomes.

1.6 Staying Safe: Young carers are children first and it is important to ensure that they are safe in the widest sense of the word. For those whose parents are involved in substance misuse or suffer mental health issues this can be a particular issue and all agencies involved have a duty to ensure children are protected. This is reflected in the whole family working approach and closer working with the adult colleagues. The establishment of a school lead in each school will be instrumental to this agenda.

1.7 Be Healthy: Being healthy is more than ensuring a young carer is physically well, it also encompasses their emotional/mental health. For this particular group of children/ young people they can be under significant levels of stress and anxiety which in turn can manifest itself in physical symptoms. It is essential to support this group to ensure they remain healthy as young people but also to protect their future adult health.

1.8 Make a positive contribution: Young carers, like their peers, have many varied skills which can benefit themselves and the local community. It is important to therefore enable these children/young people to reach their full potential and remove any inhibiting obstacles. Many young carers contribute to the development of services for young carers through active participation in forums and groups. Services can only benefit from this input and The Children Society will be instrumental over the next year in establishing a Hampshire Young Carers Forum involving those young people who access support through projects but also those who are supported in schools or by other agencies.

1.9 Enjoy and Achieve: For young carers there is a danger that they can become isolated and unable to access leisure activities. The support offered by local projects enable young carers to come together and participate in social activities and outings thus providing them with some respite from their caring responsibilities. Projects do not charge for attendance at the projects therefore removing financial reasons as being an obstacle to access.

1.10 Achieving Economic Well being: Just like adult carers, young carers can find it extremely difficult to sustain employment due to the nature and demand of being a carer. Young people must be free to refuse to take on caring so that they can develop and thrive and follow the path they choose for themselves.

2) Key Issues

2.1 Work to support the continued development of services to meet the needs of young carers, and to ensure equality of access to services across the county, has been on-going at both a strategic and operational level. Lead officer time within Children's Services has been focused on managing the consultation process for the draft strategy and amending the strategy and action plan, taking into account feedback/comments.

2.2 Responses to the consultation have been received from 5 schools, The Children's Society, young carer projects, a parent and from young carers themselves via project workers. Children's Services officers also attended the Children and Families Select Committee consultation workshop on 23^rd of December 2008. Feedback has also been received from Adult Services and within their Carers strategy and action plan they recognise the need to develop a joint working protocol and the importance of joint working. Hence, the new strategy format and contents are more focused and concise with the action plan being more agency specific against timescales to assist with monitoring outcomes.

2.3 It is acknowledged by Members and officers within Hampshire, as well as those with whom we work in the community, that achieving better outcomes for young carers can only be successful if partnership working is adopted. The action plan reflects how vital and pivotal the school role is in meeting this agenda, by improving the identification of children as young carers and encouraging this vulnerable group to seek the support which will benefit them. A challenge and potential obstacle is that some children/ young people do not see themselves as young carers or are fearful of the consequences of accessing services such as Children's Services intervention. This is partly what characterises young carers as a `hard to reach' group as discussed at the review scrutiny panel on 29^th January 2009.

2.4 Raising awareness has been a thread throughout all work with young carers. The Children's Society have been contracted over recent years to work with this agenda and have made links with Adult and Children Services, Youth Offending Teams, health and schools to raise issues related to children being young carers. Given the final draft stage of the strategy, and the consultation process, a 1 year extension has been granted to The Children's Society to undertake specific tasks over the next 12 months, whilst a full and revised service specification is developed and tendered reflecting the new action plan.

2.5 Both nationally and locally there is emphasis on adopting a whole family working approach. This links our adult colleagues to the young carers' agenda and promotes holistic assessments being undertaken where there is a care need to ensure all the individuals in a family have their needs identified and met. Hampshire will be adopting a joined up approach with all social care colleagues to meet this agenda and the action plan stipulates the need for a joint protocol between Adult and Children Services to formalise this way of working together.

2.6 Alongside strategic developments there has been progress in the actual delivery of direct support to young carers. As stated previously the number of projects in the community has increased from 8 to 10. Projects within Hampshire Young Carers Alliance (HYCA) have recently completed a self audit which provides much needed information on the detail of each project and will enable the number of young carers being supported on an annual basis to be concretely monitored. This in turn will be a reflection of success in awareness raising activities. Hampshire has financially supported 7 young carers projects through a grant of £7,857 per year for the past 3 years and approval has been granted for this to continue from the Area Based Grant for 2009- 2011 and has been increased to £10,000 for each of the 10 projects. £100,000 was made available for the 2008-2009 financial year through one off specific funding for supporting work with young carers. A report detailing the bids totalling £77,400 was presented to the Executive Member on 18^th December 2008.

2.7 Whilst there should be acknowledgement of the progress made so far in supporting young carers, there is still much to do. The challenges come in particular in the form of schools being able to identify a lead staff member to champion young carer issues and be a link with services in the wider community. These projects, which are primarily within the Third Sector, are dependent upon securing funding to continue their projects and develop their work further. For those projects delivered by the Hampshire Youth Teams the challenge is resourcing this area of work alongside the many other areas they need to deliver upon, in line with their restructure and modified focus.

2.8 Progress against the strategy and action plan will be overseen by Hampshire Young Carers Advisory Group, which is an overarching multi-agency steering group that meets bi - monthly and comes under the auspices of the Children's Trust. This group is chaired by Hampshire's Lead Officer for Young Carers. An annual progress report has been requested by the chair of the Select Committee detailing the progress of the strategy.

3) Outline of Options

3.1 Option 1: For Executive Member to approve a final Hampshire Young Carers Strategy (2009-2012). This is the only option available as young carers are a recognised group of `vulnerable' children who require specific and targeted services to provide them with appropriate support.

3.2 Option 2 :None.

4) Option Analysis / Comparison

4.1 By approving the Strategy and action plan and thereby providing Hampshire Children's Services and it's partners with a vision that clearly sets out the agenda and action plan for raising awareness of Young Carers issues, there is a means by which to increase the number of young carers identified and from this provide needs led support to this vulnerable group.

4.2 If the Young Carers Strategy were not approved there would be no strategic plan to meet the needs of this identified group and it is likely services would be fragmented and access to services inhibited.

5) Conclusions

5.1 It is in the interests of children and young people who have caring responsibilities within Hampshire for there to be a strategic plan and defined actions to support services in meeting the needs of this cohort. It would provide an opportunity for there to be true integration and joint working amongst agencies and organisations all of whom are focused on supporting the best possible outcomes for these children/young people.

6) Recommendations

The Executive Member for Children and Families approves the final Hampshire Young Carers strategy (2009-2012)

CORPORATE OR LEGAL INFORMATION:

COMPREHENSIVE RISK & IMPACT ASSESSMENT:

1) Equalities Impact Assessment:

a) This vulnerable group of children and young people who undertake inappropriate caring tasks within their family can often be marginalised and isolated within their community. This strategy and action plan works towards integrating these children and young people to help them reach their potential.

2 Impact on Crime and Disorder:

2.1.1 None.

3 Climate Change:

3.1.1 How does what is being proposed impact on our carbon footprint / energy consumption?

3.1.1.1 N/A

3.1.2 How does what is being proposed consider the need to adapt to climate change, and be resilient to its longer term impacts?

N/A

Appendix C



Hampshire's multi-agency strategy for young carers

HAMPSHIRE

STRATEGY FOR YOUNG CARERS.

(2009-2012)

Foreword

Being a child growing up in today's world can be an exciting time with many opportunities to enjoy life and participate in new experiences, all of which can contribute to a child's development and enhance their enjoyment of life.

However, we are aware that for some children and young people access to these life opportunities can be difficult for a variety of reasons. One particular group of such children/ young people are those who are young carers.

Young carers can face additional challenges in their lives and it is essential that Hampshire County Council, Health Trusts and all partners, both statutory and in the voluntary sector, work together to support this vulnerable group to achieve their aspirations, make informed decisions and fulfil their true potential.

We are all delighted that this strategy for young carers takes forward the themes of national strategies such as `Carers at the heart of 21<sup>st</sup> Century families and communities'. An essential element in meeting the needs of young carers is to ensure that colleagues in health and social care services are aware of the role a child/ young person has in a home where there is a family member requiring care and that assessment of all the individuals in that family are undertaken. Such practice is formalised in the recently published `Joint Working Protocol for families where a parent has a mental illness or substance/ alcohol dependency'. This will be further enhanced by the development of a joint working protocol specifically between Children and Adult social care services.

Collectively we look forward to seeing the progress made over the life of this three year strategy and ultimately the improvement of the outcomes for young carers and their families .

"In working together to support young carers it is important to respect the family, understand how the family works and find ways of targeting resources to work to the best effect for the child and family concerned. ,"

"This means it is crucially important to have effect assessment processes in place and, for adults and children's services, including schools working together alongside the voluntary sector, to deliver adequate levels of support,"

John Coughlan (Director of Children's Services Department)

This strategy has been produced by Hampshire County Council Children's Services Department in partnership with Hampshire County Council Adult Services Department, Hampshire Community Health Care Service and Hampshire Young Carers Alliance.

1 THE VISION FOR HAMSPHIRE'S YOUNG CARERS STRATEGY

To identify and significantly reduce the numbers of young people undertaking inappropriate and harmful caring roles, by reducing the incidence of families with unmet care needs, relying on the care of a child, which impacts on their well being and life chances;

To ensure local young carer projects and other targeted services who work directly with young carers should be available to provide safe, quality support to those children who continue to be affected by any caring role within the family.

2 WHO ARE YOUNG CARERS?

2.1 "Young carers are children and young people (up to the age of 18) whose life is affected by looking after someone with a disability or long-term illness. The person they care for may be a parent, a sibling, another family member or a friend, but need not necessarily live in the same house as them. The care they give may be practical, physical and/or emotional,"

"The terms `disability' and `long-term illness' do not just mean a physical disability or illness, but also cover, for example, mental illness, learning disability, substance misuse, frailty and old age".

2.2 The 2001 census identified that within the United Kingdom there were at least 175,000 young carers with over 3,300 of these living within the county of Hampshire. We know that this number has grown over the intervening years and will always be an underestimate of the true number of children and young people carrying out inappropriate caring tasks. Young carers make up an invisible care force who may be at risk of having their own well -being adversely affected or find themselves in an unsafe and unprotected home situation where safeguarding issues are failing to be recognised and addressed.

2.3 Identification of young carers within our communities is a key issue to be tackled by the action plan complimenting this strategy. Without true need being identified we are collectively unable to understand the scale of the issue and work towards filling gaps in support services for these children and their families.

2.4 Factors attributing to the under - identification are:

a. Lack of awareness by a professional in contact with that child and/or family

b. Poor information systems for collating data about the number of young carers

c. Young carers and their families reluctant to be identified

d. Children/young people not seeing themselves as a young carer

2.5 At the heart of this strategy and action plan is the need to see an increase in the number of young carers being identified. There is significant focus on schools and other professionals working with them to ensure staff are sufficiently skilled to recognise the signs and symptoms which could point to a child/young person being a young carer. The action plan has identified that each school ought to have a designated staff member for young carers who will play a crucial role in improving outcomes for this vulnerable group of children.

2.6 G.P practices are now required by the GMC to identify a carer and doctor's should be aware of the needs and welfare of children and young people when they see patients who are cared for by children and young people"

3.THE IMPACT OF BEING A YOUNG CARER.

3.1 Being a young carer can have detrimental effects on young people, including problems at school, health problems, emotional difficulties, isolation, lack of time for leisure, feeling different, pressure from keeping family problems a secret, problems with transition to adulthood, lack of recognition and feeling they are not being listened to.

4 WHY DO WE NEED A STRATEGY?

4.1 Hampshire County Council and its partners are committed in their determination to address the gaps that exist in meeting the needs of young carers. To achieve this goal requires a strategic plan which, not only sets out the direction of travel, but defines the actions needed, the agencies responsible and includes measurable outcomes.

4.2 This new three year strategy takes account of the ideas which have been developed in supporting young carers and their families both nationally and locally. This strategy builds on the previous Hampshire Young Carers Strategy 2005-2008 and compliments other significant pieces of legislation and Hampshire County Council publications, including:

· The National Carers strategy- http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsandPolicyAndGuidance/DH_085345

· Hampshire Carers Strategy - http://www3.hants.gov.uk/carers-strategy-final-_2008.doc

· Hampshire Children and Young Peoples Plan - http://www3.hants.gov.uk/cypp.htm

· Taking Responsibility http://www.youngcarer.com/showpage.php?file=200894164021.htm

· Local Area Agreements - http://www3.hants.gov.uk/localareaagreement.htm

· Whole Family Pathway - http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/youngcarer

· Key Principles of Practice- http://www.youngcarer.com/showpage.php?file=1111523736.htm

4.3 This strategy continues to ensure that the it is focused on achieving the 5 outcomes of Every Child Matters :

- Staying safe

- Be healthy

- Enjoy and achieve

- Making a positive contribution

- Achieving economic well being.

4.4 Whilst acknowledgement is rightly justified at the progress that has been made in the task of supporting young carers it is also acknowledged that more needs to be done. In order to achieve good outcomes for these children/young people there must also be a true and active commitment, by all agencies, to work co-operatively to ensure young carers and their families know where and how they can access support and feel confident to do so.

4.5 The attached action plan emphasises the need to adopt a Whole Family Approach thus placing responsibility on a number of agencies including health, social care , education and the voluntary sector. Staff from these services are often best placed to identify young carers and enable them and their families to access appropriate and timely support.

5.WHO IS THIS STRATEGY FOR?

5.1 This strategy has been produced for all those who have a responsibility and interest in supporting young carers and their families. . It is important to demonstrate to young carers and their families the commitment that has been made to ensure they receive an appropriate assessment of their needs and adequate support. We want young carers and their families to feel confident in accessing support services as well as ensuring that they have a voice in the development of services, as they best know what is most helpful for them.

6. UNDERPINNING PRINCIPLES OF THE STRATEGY.

6.1 In 2008 The Children Society, funded by the Department of Children ,Schools and families, published `Young Carers, parents and their families - Key Principles of Practice'. These principles are intended to be used alongside legislation and guidance already in place to enable agencies to respond to the recommendations of national policy, which affects young carers and their families in ways that are sensitive to their needs. Using these key Principles of Practice will help ensure the best use of resources and promote whole family working. These principles also enable practitioners to deliver the best practice against the 5 outcomes of Every Child Matters.

6.2 The 6 key principles are detailed below :

6.2.1 Children's welfare should be promoted and safeguarded by working towards the prevention of children undertaking inappropriate care of any family member.

6.2.2 The key to change is the development of a whole family approach and for all agencies to work together, including children and adult services, to offer co-ordinated assessments and services to the child and the whole family.

6.2.3 Young carers and their families are the experts on their own lives and as such much are fully involved in the development and the delivery of support services.

6.2.4 Young Carers will have the same access to education and career choices as their peers.

6.2.5 It is essential to continue to raise awareness of young carers and to support and influence change effectively. Work with young carers and their families must be monitored and evaluated regularly.

6.2.6 Local young carer projects and other targeted services who work directly with young carers should be available to provide safe, quality support to those children who continue to be affected by any caring role within the family.

7. HOW WILL THE VISION BE MET?

7.1 Implementing this three year strategy is a significant task that requires joint working and partnership between both statutory and voluntary organisations. Young carers are vulnerable children and young people and there is an expectation nationally and locally that the needs of these `vulnerable' young people will be acknowledged and addressed. Hampshire's CYPP clearly sets out the vision, goals and actions required to do this.

7.2 The action plan attached to this strategy comprises five specific areas of work with associated tasks and accountable agencies. These being:

1. Promoting a positive culture

2. Identification of young carers

3. Using a whole family, interagency approach to assessments and services delivery.

4. Supporting young carers and their families in order to reduce the number of young people where caring is impacting negatively on their well being

5. Raising Awareness about young carers, their families and their issues.

8. SUPPORT FOR YOUNG CARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES

8.1 It has already been acknowledged that identifying the true number of young carers is a significant task in itself and it is therefore important to ensure that practice is developed which will enable young carers to be identified and for their families to feel safe and confident to ask for support. Professionals working with a family should consider not just what the young carer does, but why they do it and what physical and emotional impact it is having on their own life. The reasons why children undertake levels of care may be complex and to resolve them may require a multi-faceted response. A key question of any assessment should be to ask "What needs to change to prevent a child caring?"

8.2 Support has been developing across Hampshire over the past 14 years via a variety of services and is greatly valued by young carers and their families. Across the County there is now a number of young carers projects providing direct support to young people, although they vary in size and the amount of service delivery they are able to undertake. Support offered by these projects may include individual and group, recreational activities, homework clubs and residential trips. The YMCA Fairthorne Manor and The Children's Society organise an annual national Young Carers Festival which local projects can support young carers to attend.

8.3 The action plan acknowledges that there should be a range of support services accessible to young carers as not all would wish to attend a dedicated project or want to access support in a school environment. Having a choice is essential.

8.4 Within the County there are some excellent practice examples of joint working with project staff being involved in delivering awareness raising school assemblies with the aim of reaching out to identify young carers and inform them of local support. The County has funded development work to identify, establish and support designated members of staff for young carers in all educational establishments. Having a dedicated young carer staff member is vital to progress in supporting young carers.

8.5 Hampshire County Council has funded 2 County Development workers to raise awareness and foster a commitment to interagency working and to ensure there is a link between the national and local agenda. Training sessions and conferences have been delivered to Adult Services, Children's Services, Youth Offending Teams, School Nursing, G.P's and teaching staff. Additionally, funding is made available to projects that are affiliated to Hampshire Young Carers Alliance to share and deliver practice in line with Every Child Matters. .

8.6 In 2009 an audit of services provided to young carers outside of specific young carer projects will be undertaken so we can establish a starting point by which we can later measure progress. HYCA projects have also undertaken self-audits of their services. The expectation therefore is that on an annual basis we will be able to see if the number of young carers being identified has changed.

8.7 In order to better support young carers and their families we need to ensure that a "whole family" approach is adopted by all. Timely and effective assessments of both the person requiring the care and those living within the family could prevent a child from undertaking inappropriate levels of in the first place. The action plan requires that a joint working protocol is developed and adopted between Adults and Children's Services and is then cascaded down all staff levels to ensure that appropriate assessments are undertaken and that children are safeguarded in their families.

9. HOW WILL PROGRESS BE MONITORED?

9.1 Having developed a strategy and action plan it is a fundamental task to ensure that there is regular monitoring of activity and therefore progress against the individual tasks.. This monitoring will be undertaken by the Young Carers Advisory Group which is chaired by Hampshire County Council's lead officer for Young Carers. This is a multi-agency forum which meets bi-monthly.

9.2 Reports are submitted to this meeting from contracted providers demonstrating the tasks they have completed in line with the issued service specification and strategy .

9.3 The Chairperson of the Children and Families Select Committee has requested that a report outlining progress against the outcomes of the action plan is presented on an annual basis.

10. Appendices

Legal framework. Appendix 1

The Children Act 1989

The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families 2000

Carers and Disabled Children's Act 2000

Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995

Young Carers Service Framework (Quality Protects 2003)

The Children Act 2004

Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004

Resources Appendix 2

Hampshire Children and Young People's Plan

Hampshire Children and Young People's draft Plan 2009

Hampshire Young Carers Strategy 2005-2008

Taking Responsibility 2008

Hampshire Carers Strategy 2008

Carers at the heart of 21^st Century Families and Communities 2008

Young Carers, parents and their families - Key Principles of Practice

The Whole Family Pathway

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers - http://www/youngcarers.net/ or for professionals - http://www.youngcarers.org/professionals

The Children's Society Young Carers' Initiative - http://www.youngcarer.com/showPage.php?file=index.htm

Hampshire Young Carers Alliance - http://www.hyca.hampshire.org.uk/

Young Carers Research Group, Loughborough University - http://www.iboro.ac.uk/department/ss/centres/YCRG/

Hampshire County Council - Information and Links - http://www3.hants.gov.uk/childrens-services/youngcarers.htm

Contacts

The Children's Society Include Project

1^st Floor, Calford House

4 Commerce Park

Wessex Way

Colden Common

Winchester

SO21 1WP

Young Carer projects:

Andover Young Carers

Churchill Bungalow

Admirals Way

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 1QC

01264 333788

[email protected]

Eastleigh Young Carers project

One Community

16 Romsey Road

Eastleigh

Hampshire

SO50 9AL

02380 902465

[email protected]

Havant Young Carers Project

Hampshire County Council

Children's Services

The Original Place Youth centre

136 Purbrook Way

Havant

Hampshire

P09 3SU

Tel: 023 92472819

Fax: 02392485130

Kids-Fareham and Gosport Young Carers

Kids Family centre

Delta House

Fareham

Hampshire

PO16 0QS

01329 242960

[email protected]

Rushmoor and Hart young carers

Kandy Redwood/ David Hewlett

Hampshire County Council

Grosvenor Road

Aldershot

Hampshire

GU11 3DP

Tel: 01252 814788

[email protected] / [email protected]

Winchester District Young Carers Project

68 St George's Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 8AH

01962 848039

[email protected]

Romsey Carers Forum - Young Carers Project

9 Love Lane

Romsey

Hampshire

SO51 8DE

Tel: 01794 515126

[email protected]

Ed Ives - Wara

Basingstoke Voluntary Services

The Orchard

White Hart Lane

Basingstoke

RG21 4AF

Tel: 01256 423892

Email: [email protected]

Marie Shotbolt

Community First

New Forest

65 Christchurch Road

Ringwood

Hampshire

BH24 1DH

Tel: 01425 478519

Email: [email protected]

1. PROMOTING A POSITIVE CULTURE

2. IDENTIFICATION OF YOUNG CARERS

3. USING A WHOLE FAMILY, INTERAGENCY APPROACH TO ASSESSMENTS AND SERVICE DELIVERY

4. SUPPORTING YOUNG CARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHERE CARING IS IMPACTING ON THEIR WELL-BEING

5 RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT YOUNG CARERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR ISSUES