❤️ This week is #carersweek which is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK. 💞 It also helps people who don't think of themselves as having caring responsibilities to identify as carers and access much-needed support. 🗺 This year the theme is 'Putting Carers on the Map' highlighting the invaluable contributions of carers across the UK and ensuring their voices are heard loud and clear. 🚸 Children as young as five can often find themselves in a role as young carer to a family member sometimes carrying out 50 hours of care each week on top of their normal school life. 🏫 Schools, colleges and universities can identify children, young people and adults with caring responsibilities. They can recognise the impact caring can have on their studies, as well as their personal lives. They can take action to ensure carers get the help they need to cope with what can be an intense additional pressure. 📈 Last week, we learnt that, for the second year in a row, schools in BCP were the most effective at identifying young carers across the UK 🏆 MYTIME Young Carers' Level Up Programme once again proving a vital resource and support to schools. 🧐 But there's still work to do as 72% of schools nationally say that they don't know of young carers! 📺 If you can spare a couple of minutes to watch Oritsé Williams talk of his experiences around being a young carer it really will be one of the most worthwhile break you have today.
Corporate Partnership Executive at MYTIME Young Carers & Wimborne Town FC 1st team manager
Fantastic young carer awareness! Having someone speak to passionately about his own experiences as a young carer, as Oritsé Williams, is invaluable to raising the awareness that is so needed around young carers and the challenges they face. Well worth 2 minutes out of anyone's day! 🤩 #youngcarers #awareness #GMB
