Young carers

If your child is a young carer- taking on extra responsibilities for a parent or a brother or sister - there are ways that you can support them to make things easier and help them manage.

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How to support a young carer

Give them time for themselves. Try to make sure that they have time each week spending time with their friends where they can relax and let off steam.
Encourage them to do something they enjoy. This can be something that they do in the home or outside the home.
Give them a physical space in the house that can be their ‘happy place’, where they can escape to when they need to.

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Listen to this podcast for young people, created by young people. It talks about the challenges of being a teenager and managing the household:

There are some great websites you can look at also:

Childline~Young carers

Action for carers ~ Young carers Millies blog

Childrens Society~Young and caring

Time to reflect

Thinking through some of the content you’ve read today about being a young carer…

What are you already doing that you want to carry on doing?

What have you learned that you could try today?

What do you want to do next?

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