Angus Carers Association supports young carers on a one to one basis to assist them in coping with their caring role. Their aim is to ensure that all carers in Angus receive appropriate information and support to enable them to feel valued and confident in their caring situation and to develop their own potential.

The grant will fund a full time Young Carer Development Worker to build relationships with teaching and non-teaching staff in school communities to embed an all school approach to young carers’ identification across Angus. As school staff better understand the problems that young carers face they will be able to improve support provided for young carers’ attainment and welfare. They will also be able to identify more young carers and enable them to seek additional support through community and respite groups.

Gloucestershire Young Carers works with children and young people who have caring responsibilities within their families. They aim to give young carers the same opportunities as their peers and ensure that they are not disadvantaged by their family situations. They do this by supporting and enabling young carers to build on their strengths and achieve their aspirations.

The grant will be used to employ an Education Development Officer, working alongside young carers aged 8-24. This role will expand their work supporting schools and colleges across Gloucestershire to better identify, understand and support young carers. This will lead to an improvement in their learning environment helping young carers to reach their educational potential.

Hillingdon Carers’ aim is to relieve poverty and mental or physical sickness or suffering amongst carers (from 5 years old) and mitigate against the negative impacts of unpaid caring responsibilities.

They run a range of projects supporting carers across the Borough in three key areas; Information and Advice Services, Health and Well-being support, and Young Carer Services.

The grant will be used to tackle the impact of Covid-19 on young carers by developing existing work in schools to address any educational gaps created by the pandemic. The grant will also ensure that schools are supported to provide early interventions to young carers in need.

MYTIME’s mission is to level the playing field for young carers and young adult carers by providing them with the support opportunities and friendship that every child deserves. To do this they aim to; create and enact sustainable policies and interventions aimed at meeting young carers’ needs, and promote their health, well-being and development. They also aim to create extensive awareness at all levels of government and society of the experiences and needs of young carers; and establish clear legal rights for young carers and a foundation of reliable evidence with which to influence law.

The grant will enable MYTIME Young Carers to recruit a Programme Co-ordinator for their existing Level Up Programme who will work to ensure that the young carers of Dorset receive everything they need in school to thrive, both in education and beyond.

Sandwell Young Carers’ aim is to provide support for children and young people aged between five and 18 years of age whose health, education and lives are affected as a result of having to care for a dependent family member.

The main activities undertaken are a short breaks/respite programme, Young Carer Aware – an awareness raising project aimed at schools and local social care teams (children and adult teams), and support and advocacy.

The grant will improve the educational outcomes and future opportunities for 180 young carers through a programme of awareness raising in schools/colleges as well as offering direct time-limited support to young carers to tackle the added inequalities they face due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Signpost Stockport for Carers aims to provide carer support for adults and young carers (aged 6-25) across the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport and advance education amongst carers and the public. The Young Carer Service offers a number of different services; family support; education liaison and group support. They work with around 350 young carers every year and receive on average 250 young carer assessment requests annually. Of these between 100-150 end up receiving support.

A grant will employ a Schools Development Worker to enable, empower and support school staff to establish and sustain much needed provision within school settings. This will significantly enhance and increase the support available for Stockport’s Young Carers in school, improving their emotional, mental and physical health and impacting positively on their educational outcomes.

Swansea Carers Centre offers a range of services to the carers of Swansea in response to their needs; a Welfare Rights Service; Information and Advice Service; Counselling Service and a respite Service. Their Young Adult Carer Service was originally set up as a pilot in 2015 in response to young adult carers identifying a lack of support.

This grant will provide funding to employ a new Young Adult Carer Education Worker to expand the current Young Adult Carer project. This new post will be specifically focused on supporting young adult carers to continue in higher/further education and training.