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Caring about young carers Paul Brownlee Service Manager Young Peoples Services England and Wales 177,918 young (5 to 17 years) unpaid carers 54% girls and 46% boys Increase in the number of young unpaid carers between 2001


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Caring about young carers

Paul Brownlee

Service Manager Young Peoples Services

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England and Wales

  • 177,918 young (5 to 17 years) unpaid

carers

  • 54% girls and 46% boys
  • Increase in the number of young unpaid

carers between 2001 Majority of young carers contributed between 1 and 19 hours

  • f unpaid care per week

Source: Census 2011, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

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North East

  • 7943 young (5 to 17 years) unpaid carers
  • Majority were girls
  • Increase in the number of young unpaid carers

between 2001 and 2011

  • Majority of young carers in the region

contributed between 1 and 19 hours of unpaid care per week

Source: Census 2011, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

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Newcastle

Source: Census 2011, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

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Newcastle

Source: Census 2011, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

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Young Carers Strategy

  • Ensure that young carers are not

disadvantaged by their caring role and responsibilities

  • There is early identification and intervention

to prevent children and young people taking

  • n inappropriate levels of care
  • To ensure that children and young people

have the best possible chance of fulfilling their potential

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Key principles

  • To safeguard children
  • Develop a whole family approach to needs led

assessments

  • Young carers and their families are the experts in their own

lives

  • Young carers will have the same access to education and

career choices as their peers

  • To continually raise awareness of young carers and, to

support and influence change effectively

  • To provide safe, quality support to those children who

continue to be affected by any caring role within their family

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Introducing

Amelia’s Story

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Children and Families Act 2014

  • Consolidates and simplifies the legislation relating to

young carers assessments making rights and duties clearer to young people and practitioners

  • Extends the right to an assessment to all young

carers under the age of 18 regardless of the level or type of caring

  • Requires a Local Authority to carry out an

assessment of a young carers need for support on the appearance of need

  • Provides the appropriate links between children’s and

adults legislation to enable local authorities to align the assessment of a young carer with an assessment

  • f the person they care for
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In practice, a local authority must

  • Take reasonable steps to identify the

extent to which there are young carers within their area who have needs for support

  • Assess whether a young carer within their

area has needs for support and if so, what those needs are

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LA carrying out the young carers needs assessment must consider and decide

  • Whether the young carer has needs for support in

relation to the care they provide or intend to provide

if so

  • Whether those needs could be satisfied by services

the LA may provide under Section 17 Children’s Act 1989 and

  • If they could be satisfied, whether or not to provide

any such services in relation to the young carer

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In practice

  • Assess the needs of the adult or child who needs care and

support

  • A whole family approach is key
  • Assessments should ascertain why a child is caring and

what needs to change in order to prevent them undertaking excessive or inappropriate caring responsibilities which could impact adversely on their welfare, education or social development

  • Consideration must be given to whether a young carer is a

‘child in need’ and whether their welfare or development may suffer if support is not provided to them and/or their family

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NSCB – February 2014

Continuum of Help and Support

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Thank you