Andy McGowan
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Policy & Practice Manager @CarersTrust;
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15-01-2010 00:22:35
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Huge thanks to Surrey Cricket for your continued support for young carers - looks like they had an amazing day!
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
4th International Young Carers Conference
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
'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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