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Contact Details

Stirling Carers Centre

65-69 Barnton Street

Stirling

FK8 1HH

Molly Feinmann (Young Carers Education Officer)

molly@stirlingcarers.co.uk

Group Exercise

What do you think a young carer is?

What kind of task do you think a young carer does?

Practical Support

Carers Assessments

Aids and adaptations

Basic advocacy

Form Filling

Advice and information

Signposting and referrals

Supporting Adult Carers

Financial

Benefits checks

Form filling

Funding/grant applications

Advice and information

Emotional Support

Peer / group support

‘One to one’ support

Telephone support

Signposting

Home visits

Group Exercise

  • What would stop carers individually getting their views heard?
  • What would be the key shared issues for carers to address through a Carer Engagement Group?

EPiC E-Learning Module: this e-learning module covers the knowledge and skills for level 1 of the EPiC core principles: Carer Aware. It doesn’t take long, is certificated and available through the EPiC website.

  • Who would be key professional partners and what role would they play?

EPiC

Joint project of NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) to implement the workforce education and learning elements of Caring Together, the Carers Strategy for Scotland 2010-15.

Aim to support workers from health, social care and other services to work in partnership with carers and young carers, and to achieve better outcomes for all involved in the caring relationship.

Go to www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/equalpartnersincare for a full version of the core principles as well as learning resources and practice examples to help you work more effectively with carers and young carers.

To achieve this, they have developed a set of core principles for working with carers and young carers.

A Young Carer is

  • cooking
  • cleaning
  • shopping
  • providing nursing and personal care
  • giving emotional support
  • and so much more

Young carers are children or young people who help look after a member of the family who is sick, disabled, has mental health problems, or is misusing drugs or alcohol.

Tasks they do...

Young Carer Facts

The average age of a young carer is 12 years old.

The average age of a young carer is 12.

What can you do?

The 2001 census identified 175,000 young carers in the UK.

Group Exercise

Why might young carers struggle to access higher education?

Carers Trust 2014

Case

Challenges

What we do to help Young Carers

95% of young carers said caring affected them being able to spend time with friends

62% of young carers said that caring affected them joining clubs and groups

69% of young carers said caring affected them having a holiday

Spending time with friends-

NEED STAT ON MENTAL HEALTH

Joining clubs and groups-

Rural/Urban Support

One to One Support

Support Group / Short Break provision

Young Carer training

Advice and Information

Advocacy

Educational Support

Partnership working with 47 schools in Stirling Council area- Signed charter

One to one & group support available in schools

Awareness raising delivered to both pupils and school staff

Having a holiday-

Mental Health

What challenges do young carers face in their day to day lives?

Group Exercise

College Development Network 2014

Barriers to getting there

To some young carers the idea of university may be impossible

Being afraid or not wanting to leave the person they care for

Not getting in because they have poor results due to challenges they faced in school

Financial problems resulting in them being unable to afford university or to leave home

Fear of struggling with the work load

Low self confidence

Challenges once they are there

  • There is a lack of coordinated, systematic support
  • 56% of carers compared to 39% of non-carers seriously thought of leaving.
  • Money is a huge issue
  • Carers experienced lower well-being than students without caring responsibilities.
  • 15% student carers have mental health difficulties and in some cases this can have a serious effect on their studies.

72% of young carers said they enjoy attending university

  • Involvement in the development of Health & Social Care Integration locally
  • Involvement in NHS Forth Valley's Annual Performance Review and Clinical Services Review
  • Direct carer involvement on condition specific partnership groups
  • Carers providing peer support and 'spreading the word' amongst each other

Key achievements for the Stirling Carers' Voice:

  • Responsibility locally to monitor the action areas contained within the Forth Valley Integrated Carers Strategy
  • Pursuing the appointment of a Carers Champion within Stirling Council
  • Development of a local identification card for adult carers
  • Membership with National Carer Organisations
  • Attendance at the national Scottish Carers Parliament
  • Contribution to national consultations

What can be done to help?

  • Celebrating Carers Rights Day

Education

Challenges

  • Young carers often miss school or are late because of their caring role.
  • 86% of young carers said being a young carers affected them being able to do homework.

Finances

  • 41% of young carers said caring affected them being able to have a part time job.
  • 56% of young carers had their EMA stopped due to missing school or being late.

Carers Trust 2014

What are the barriers to higher education?

What is a young carer?

Today we will be talking about:

What can be done to help?

What challenges do young carers face?

Molly Feinmann

Young Carers Education Officer

WORKSHOP: Young Carers and The Barriers to Accessing Higher Education

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