I have 20 years of experience working in the field of young carers and is available for support on a consultancy basis: [See an overview of Daniel’s work with young carers .
I am independent and can work flexibly to meet the needs of your organisation. This can be through either a short-term consultancy role (e.g., reviewing your strategy or action plan) or a longer term role (e.g., sustained training staff and CPD). This can be either in person or online.
Please do contact me for an informal chat about your specific needs. Email: daniel(at)youngcarers.info
Daniel has extensive experience of supporting young carer services (local and national), local authorities as well as the health, education (schools, colleges and universities) and social care sectors. To complement this Daniel also has many years’ experience of research and evaluation in the field.
Examples of support I can offer:
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Strategic work: Support with the development or review of policies, strategies and action plans. Report writing.
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Service development: practice, procedures, participation, impact, evaluation.
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Training: On all aspects of young carers, young adult carers, student carers.
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Research and evaluation: Support with designing or running research and evaluation.
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Advocacy and championing: Awareness raising, service promotion, support with participation activities and ensuring the voice of young carers is heard and having an impact.
Please also see Offer to services supporting young carers
Daniel’s recent consultancy work includes working for The Children’s Society on the Seldom Heard Young Carers Programme (2020) funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, delivering general training on young carers to London boroughs on and for Carers Trust on the national Carers Passport Scheme project (2017) funded by the Department of Health and Social Care:
Daniel has have provided consultancy or training for: