Young Carers

Support for Young Carers

School: Young Carer Leads Mrs Heaphy & Miss Drummond, support groups, Lunch time club, academic mentoring, peer mentoring with Noremarsh Primary school.

Swindon Young Carers and Wiltshire Young Carers; 1:1 and family support, time-out events, groups and activities

Internet: The Carers Trust / Kooth / Childline / The Children’s Society

Useful Links

Young carers - Wiltshire Council – this website contains information on the young carers assessment with IFD to register them as a young carer, as well as information about youth action Wiltshire and the provision they offer.

Voice - Wiltshire Council – this page has information about the young carers council.

Home - Wiltshire Carers – this is Forward Carers who is commissioned by Wiltshire Council to be the online offer for carers – it covers young and adult carers

There’s the young carer magazine – this is the link to sign up for your own copy https://surveys.wiltshire.gov.uk/Interview/38313737-0818-44e3-8a5b-3257982353d2

Young Adult Carers - Carers Together Wiltshire – for the young adult carers provision which covers over 16’s and support with college and the transition.

Young Carers Development Trust | YCDT