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Young Carers Action Day

COLLABORATION IS KEY TO EFFECTIVE SUPPORT FOR YOUNG CARERS, SAYS NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY Ahead of Young Carers Action Day on the 16th March, Spurgeons Children’s Charity called for greater collaboration across support services, schools and communities across the UK to…

Giving Young Carers a voice

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…

Jack’s Special Haven

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.…

Retrospective: An extraordinary year

As Covid restrictions progressively lift and a greater normality returns, Spurgeons Head of Practice Lorraine White reflects on how we have managed to continue providing support to children and young people during the pandemic, and the new needs that are…

Spurgeons supports #TheBigAsk, the largest ever consultation with children undertaken in England.

Spurgeons Children’s Charity is delighted to support #TheBigAsk with Dame Rachel De Souza, Children’s Commissioner for England.

Young carers on young carers

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…

Service in the spotlight: Giving Young Carers a voice

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…

Challenging year prompts an inspirational act of kindness for young carer, Chloe

The past year has been very challenging for so many, especially the young people who access Spurgeons Young Carers services across Birmingham and Wolverhampton. For these young people, attending Spurgeons’ young carers groups provides respite from the adult responsibilities of…

New funding backs Spurgeons’ work with West Midlands youth

Spurgeons is set to enhance the services its West Midlands youth projects can offer, thanks to some hard fund raising work and the generosity of a number of new grants and trusts. Our Young Carers services in Birmingham and Wolverhampton…

Young carers tell their stories on national TV

Following reports that on average young carers are ‘working 25 hours a week’ looking after their loved ones, three young people from our Birmingham Young Carers Service appeared ‘live’ BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show to discuss the challenges of being a…

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Young Carers Action Day

Giving Young Carers a voice

Jack’s Special Haven

Retrospective: An extraordinary year

Spurgeons supports #TheBigAsk, the largest ever consultation with children undertaken in England.

Young carers on young carers

Service in the spotlight: Giving Young Carers a voice

Challenging year prompts an inspirational act of kindness for young carer, Chloe

New funding backs Spurgeons’ work with West Midlands youth

Young carers tell their stories on national TV

Introduction

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