Schools Action list

1. Draw up a Young Carers Charter
2. Ensure that issues affecting young carers and issues around disability, illness and substance misuse are part of your training calendar for teachers. Young Carers Projects can usually help with this.
3. Re-visit your Anti-bullying Policy. Is it working for young carers?
4. Include young carers’ and disability/ illness issues in PSHE/ PSE/ Citizenship lessons. Young Carers Projects are often willing to deliver lessons and assemblies.
5. Work with your local Young Carers Project to raise awareness of young carers issues and the help available, so that young carers can seek help before their education begins to suffer. Proactive work of this kind can be a resource-efficient way of improving truancy and achievement figures for the school.
6. Allow young carers to telephone home if they are worried.
7. Make your school parents’ evenings accessible to parents with disabilities or who find it difficult to leave the house without support. Consider home visits where appropriate.

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