Huge thanks to Surrey Cricket for your continued support for young carers - looks like they had an amazing day!

This genuinely makes me angry. Someone who is £1 over the earnings limit for Carers Allowance could find themselves prosecuted and having to pay back thousands. The system could stop this - This has to change. I did hear someone say how this issue has post office scandal vibes...

Carers Trust is at the International Young Carers Conference and leading sessions on how to best support young carers

The conference has brought together leaders, experts, organisations and policy makers to better identify, support and engage with young carers

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Looking forward to the next plenary from Saul Becker and Rebecca Lacey about how research can be used to bring about change, including some of the longitudinal work being done with Carers Trust. 4th International Young Carers Conference # #IYCC2024

Really enjoyed the session with Carers Trust Scotland hearing about how young carer voices and influencing has brought about changes to financial support for young adult carers 4th International Young Carers Conference @CarersTrust

Such an amazing start of the main 4th International Young Carers Conference - lots of excitement in the room! Such a brilliant job from young people from numerous countries opening the conference. Such a well deserved standing ovation #IYCC2024 Carers Trust Saul Becker @eurocarers MYTIME Young Carers

What an inspiring first day at 4th International Young Carers Conference with brilliant young adult carers coming together from different countries.
The key takeaway for me today was that we really need to explore more the concept of 'choice' - choice to care, choice in their lives, choices for their future

Absolutely fascinating session - young carers & adults are separately looking at what should the purpose of support for young carers be:
- Prevent
- Reduce
- Support

Consensus is need a mixture of the 3

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We've had perspectives from Swedish Government, Flemish Government in Belgium and also the European Parliament - between 7 and 8% of children/young people in Europe are young carers - that's a huge number of children who need considering in policy 4th International Young Carers Conference Eurocarers

We are now into our policy workshop with speakers from different organisations giving their different perspectives on how to improve support for young carers. Really great to have Harriet Waldegrave from Children's Commissioner for England opening the conversation 4th International Young Carers Conference Carers Trust

Really great session with the young adult carers highlighting the positive impact of caring. This is a topic that is so often forgotten because of the negative impacts, so brilliant to be hearing their views 4th International Young Carers Conference Carers Trust Saul Becker

Excited to be at Manchester Met News with 3 young adult carers for the Young Carer day 4th International Young Carers Conference with young carers and young adult carers. Saul Becker opening the first session. Carers Trust

Completely unscientific question for you Twitter - if you are employed in England, Scotland or Wales - has your manager/employer made you/colleagues aware that from tomorrow there is a new right to request Carer's Leave if you are a carer? Feel free to RT.

'Shockingly, 5% of those receiving Carer’s Allowance had used a food bank in the last 30 days, compared to only 1% of the wider population'

Findings from Department for Work and Pensions's Family Resource Survey show how the huge strain on unpaid carers' finances

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