Tag: young carers

AFTER DISCOVERING SHE WAS A YOUNG CARER: 15-YEAR OLD LUCY BECOMES A VOICE FOR CHANGE Spurgeons Children’s Charity supports around 800 young people aged 5 to 18 through their Young Carers services in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. These young people are caring…

16-YEAR-OLD ‘THOMAS’ SHEDS LIGHT ON THE COVID-19 IMPACT ON YOUNG CARERS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY IDENTIFICATION. Spurgeons Children’s Charity supports around 800 young people aged 5 to 18 through their Young Carers services in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. These young people…

To mark Carers Rights Day on 25th November 2021, young carers met with the Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, on Zoom. Taylor and Lucy from Spurgeons Young Carers were among the 30 young people who took part. Dame Rachel…

For the past 3 years, Spurgeons has worked with Christian holiday organisation CPAS Ventures and Falcons to enable Birmingham-based young carers to have a summer holiday. Jack was one of them – he went to Fylingthorpe in 2018 and 2019.…

Spurgeons talked to the young carers we work with in the West Midlands about their lives as teenagers, carers and regulars at our young carers groups. Though modest and generally unassuming about their role, their identity as young carers is…

Census data identifies 173,000 young carers in the UK (2016), though BBC research projects up to 700,000, or 3 times as many, have caring needs that are yet to be identified.  These young people are caring for a family member…