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Gloucestershire Young Carers
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Find out more about Gloucestershire Young Carers, who are celebrating their 30 year Anniversary this year.
Since 1993 Gloucestershire Young Carers has been supporting young carers across the county, from humble beginnings with just 5 young carers in a café in Stroud to a 26 strong team supporting over 1000 young carers aged between 8-24 across the entire county.
Who are young carers?
Young carers are children and young people who carry out significant caring tasks and may assume levels of responsibility for a family member which would ordinarily be taken on by an adult.
They may be involved in the care of an adult or child in their family affected by one or more of the following:
- Providing direct services in partnership with a raft of other organisations
- Working with young carers to support professionals and commissioners to improve their response to young carers
We provide support for Young Carers through:
- Assessment and Support Planning
- Young Person Friendly Information
- Young Carers’ Participation
- Group Support
- Specialist Targeted Support
- One to One Support
What we do
Gloucestershire Young Carers support young carers by:
- Providing direct services in partnership with a raft of other organisations
- Working with young carers to support professionals and commissioners to improve their response to young carers.Â
We provide support for Young Carers through:
Assessment and Support Planning
Young Person Friendly Information
Young Carers’ Participation
Group Support
Specialist Targeted Support
One to One Support
We provide support for Professionals through:
- Young carer led training and workshops on a range of issues related to young carers and their families.
- Advice and support to enable best practice in schools, mental health teams, social care teams, early help forums, hospitals and other agencies who work with children and families
- Enabling commissioners to hear directly from young carers to inform their allocation of resources.
- Partnership working with statutory, voluntary and community agencies across the county and beyond.
If you would like to find out more about what we do, and how to get in touch, visit Gloucestershire Young Carers (glosyoungcarers.org.uk).
If you would like to know more about our latest news and how you could support the vital work we do, visit News and Events | Gloucestershire Young Carers (glosyoungcarers.org.uk)