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West Sussex Carers get a chance to share their needs!

Focus on carers at Health and Wellbeing Board

Date: 10 April 2013
Press release number: PR5417

A presentation on carers and their needs will feature at the West Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board meeting this month.

It’s the first meeting of the Board to take place since the national NHS changes came into effect on 1 April 2013, which sees the responsibility for public health moving to local authorities and also the introduction of the three West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Groups.

The meeting, which is open to the public to attend, takes place on Thursday 18 April 2013 at 2.15pm at County Hall, West Street, Chichester, PO19 1RQ.

School nurses will help young carers

Carer aid of nurses at school

Pupils

Heartening … pupils to get extra care from school nurses

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.

‘Aware’ … Edward Timpson

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

Sunderland Echo

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.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.

Published on Thursday 14 March 2013 13:16

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.