Daniel offers consultancy support in all areas related to the support of young carers, young adult carers, student carers and their families. Please do get in touch via the contact form for more information, or to explore your support or training needs.

 

Young carer services

 

‘Young carer services play a vital role in championing the awareness of young carers, delivering targeted support and facilitating wider support for families.’  (Daniel)

A package of support can be tailored to your individual requirements and could include the following:

  • An annual review of your service – both from a strategic and practice standpoint
  • Support with developing a strategic, action or business plan
  • Staff training
  • Reviewing or supporting the development of key documents, tenders and funding applications
  • Research and evaluation
  • Bespoke projects

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Local authorities

 

‘We estimate that approximately 4 out of 5 young carers may not be receiving support from their local authority’ (Young carers: The support provide to young carers in England – The Children’s Commissioner 2016)

To support local authorities fulfill their duties for young carers and families under the Care Act 2014 and Children and Families Act 2014, Daniel can offer the following:

A package of support tailored to your individual requirements which could include the following:

  • Review of available provision
  • Support with strategy and the development of models of collaborative whole family approaches
  • Support to develop processes for the identification of the number of local young carers
  • Support to develop models of assessment and support services for young carers and their families
  • Review and support with service specifications, tenders
  • Training for local authority teams
  • Support to help develop collaborative working with schools to better identify and support young carers their families
  • Support with the development of resources
  • Support to develop processes to assess and measure impact

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Universities

 

To support universities with their widening participation outreach activities and their support their students and staff with caring responsibilities.

A package of support tailored to your individual requirements which could include the following:

  • Review of available support
  • Support with developing a university policy and action plan for the support of student carers
  • Support to develop processes to better identify and support for student carers

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