Good Practice Examples
How do you make the policies and guidance given here work in the school environment? The following working examples show what other young carers services and schools are doing to support young carers more effectively.
Harrogate and Craven young carers service has developed a successful mentoring programme for young carers in schools:
Have a look at this example of a young carers policy, taken from Brent Young Carers Project’s Schools Policy:
Sample young carers policy for schools
Marriotts School have set up a process to identify students who are young carers and establish a support network for them. Their policy and background information is availiable below:
Marriotts School Young Carers Policy
Young Carers at Marriotts School (44 KB)
Marriotts School Structure (33 KB)
Suffolk Young Carers developed a Code of Practice for working with schools:
