Category Archives: young carers
School nurses will help young carers
Carer aid of nurses at school
SCHOOL nurses are to act as “champions” for young carers who arrive for classes exhausted from helping relatives.
All 1,200 will be trained to pinpoint kids suffering from long hours looking after a disabled or ill relative. They may also be asked to advise desperate pupils after school.
As many as 700,000 pupils look after a sick family member.
Many end up playing truant or face bullying because their school work suffers. The Carers Trust said it was “heartened” by the plan as nurses are “ideally positioned” to help young carers. Children’s minister Edward Timpson said schools would be more “carer aware”.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4886016/Carer-aid-of-nurses-at-school.html
AN eggstra-ordinary fun day for Carers
Easter fair to highlight work of Sunderland carers
Viv Watts from Hope for Kidz and Kate Stewart from Sun Fm have teamed up with The Galleries shopping cente to support an Easter Egg appeal for youngsters across Wearside.
AN eggstra-ordinary fun day will help highlight the work of young Wearside carers.
A group of Sunderland University students has organised the Easter fair on Saturday, to show the hard work and dedication of young carers in Sunderland.
The fair is the brainchild of Amy Melody, a final-year criminology with journalism student, who has personal experience of being a young carer.
She said: “I applied to the university’s Social Enterprise Fund as I wanted to put on a family fun event to raise awareness of the role of young carers in society, particularly in Sunderland.
Redbridge young carers get some acting tips
EastEnders actress, Jo Joyner, shares acting tips with young carers in Redbridge
9:10am Tuesday 26th March 2013 in News By Melanie Attlesey
Jo Joyner with the young carersAn EastEnders actress shared acting tips with a group of young carers at a workshop.
Jo Joyner, who plays Tanya Branning in the BBC One soap, met 12 carers aged 14 to 23 on Thursday at the Barnardo’s Indigo Young Carers Service in Granville Road, Ilford.
The workshop was the last in a series of four designed to help the carers improve their confidence.
Mariella Creegan, 14, who attended the session said: “The workshops have helped me a lot and have given me the confidence to go to a theatre group and audition for a part in their performances of the musical Sister Act.
“I couldn’t have done this before coming to these sessions.”
Ms Joyner said: “It has been a privilege to come along to the workshops and all the young people have been so warm and welcoming.
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