Young Carers

We are children and young people who are also carers. We believe we should have the same rights as other children and young people, including the rights to:

• Be children as well as carers

• Schools and colleges should give us the help we need to get an education

• Fun, friends and time off from caring

• Family life with well-supported parents

• Practical help and support so that we don’t have to do all of the caring in our homes

• A safe environment and protection from harm, including any harm that caring activities could cause us

• Services that value our different backgrounds, cultures, religions, races and sexualities

• Be listened to and supported by the people who support our parents and siblings

• An assessment of what we need as individuals, without any assumptions being made about us

• Be listened to and involved when people make decisions which affect our lives

• Information about the health problems that we see our family members experiencing

• Advocacy and complaints procedures which we can understand and which work

• Stop taking on caring roles when we wish to

• Move on and become independent adults