Brighton Young Carers Project
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Brighton Young Carers Project - providing support, advice, advocacy and respite for young carers age 8-25. Get in touch if you need our help. Tweets by our team
Brighton & Hove
Joined November 2013
Just a reminder that our team is currently home based. Although our phone lines are checked occasionally at work you are best to contact us on youngcarersproject@thecarerscentre.org or phone 07763 925841
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Alongside our new research, we’ve written to the Chancellor with 120+ organisations calling for an urgent extension to the Household Support Fund which ends next month. The clock is ticking with devastating consequences if @Jeremy_Hunt doesn’t act now. https://t.co/QGEULTdBU7
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https://t.co/jQPdVN5P9y while this support will definitely benefit some children, we're not sure how this will address the shorfall in social care where young carers end up being relied upon to do what amounts to a full carers job. #youngcarers
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Attendance hubs to more than double to support 1,000 more schools and £15 million investment to expand the attendance mentor pilot programme.
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We will always lead with a child centered approach. Our young carers can rest assured that how they identify or express themselves will be respected and that they will be kept safe at our services.
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The draft guidance and consultation documents can be found below: Guidance: https://t.co/1obyGF2Lzb Consultation: https://t.co/1TymTmr6Pe 2/2
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LGBT+ Sector Responds to the Government’s Draft ‘Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children’. 1/2
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Young Carers: The Carers Centre for Brighton and Hove is part of the @Coopuk Local Community Fund. Choose us by clicking here https://t.co/aymn40gRFp and you can help us make a positive impact in our community every time you swipe your #Membership card. #ItsWhatWeDo
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With this proposed Advanced British Standard, it is vital that the outdated 21-hour study rule for Carers Allowance is scrapped. Otherwise, young carers caring for significant numbers of hours a week will be excluded from Carers Allowance and face even greater financial pressure.
1/ We’re creating a new, combined single qualification. The Advanced British Standard brings together the very best of A levels and T levels. This is a long-term reform that will take time to get right and extra funding to deliver. No child will be left behind, here’s how🧵👇
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We are all looking forward to this event. Pop along and have a go! #Vitennis #Brighton @activesussex @BHhealthylife @BrightonHoveCC @Brighton_tweets @sportbrighton @BrightonYCP
Join us in Brighton for our multi-sport Have a Go Day! 🙌 Taking place on Saturday 7th October from 10am-3pm at the Southwick Leisure Centre. Try tennis, goalball, football, cricket and more. All ages and ability levels welcome. Register: https://t.co/kgSVZp27Zg
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For many young carers - not being able to be in contact with home during school hours isn't a question of convenience, but rather something that can significantly impact their ability to concentrate, or even attend school at all. It's vital young carers are properly considered(1)
“It’s vital that the hundreds of thousands of young carers in England are exempt from any complete ban on mobile phones in schools, which will make their lives even harder." Our full response to the proposed complete ban on pupils using phones at school👇
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Our manager Ruth will be speaking at the Reimagination at Work Conference!📍The event is online & on-demand💰Tickets are £40📆starts Monday 25th September. As a Romany they will be speaking about Traveller inclusion at work Get tickets here: https://t.co/BVJnnwi9XY
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@BrightonHoveCC @CGL_B_H @BrightonYCP @ru_ok_service @riseuk @BHCETS @EastSussexCC we’d really appreciate it if you could share this job opportunity 🙏
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This is absolutely shocking. We have a good relationship with #Brighton schools however we know that not all schools here know their young carers or adequately support them. @BrightonHoveCC @educationgovuk #youngcarers matter!
The fact that 79% of schools recorded NO young carers in their schools in the school census is beyond alarming. Young carers always say that improved identification/support in school is essential. This has to be a wake-up call to national and local joint efforts to improve this
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We did a fantastic #fastfashion workshop with @BrightonMuseums and @SewFabulousSE learning more about costume and working on upcycling clothing as well as their creative fashion designer skills! #youngcarers Read more here: https://t.co/ijNNQjEeul
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Deprived, hidden, seldom heard - these are very inappropriate, classist and quite often racialised terms. They don't speak to action or working WITH communities either. It's not okay to describe young carers this way.
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That represents an INCREASE in the number of 5, 6 and 7 year olds providing 50 hours of care a week since 2011. No child should be providing 50 hours of care, yet nearly 15,000 children are. This is why work of @CarersTrust @YCAlliance @APPGYCandYAC continues to be so vital (2)
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If you ever needed a stat to prove there is still so much more to do around identifying/supporting young carers, this is it... nearly 10 years on from legal rights for young carers, the 2021 census found 1771 5-7 year olds are providing 50+ hours of care a week...@CarersTrust (1)
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A very good question...it's very disappointing to see this term still frequently used in the voluntary sector.
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If any of our #youngcarers, #youngadultcarers, staff or supporters are struggling with the impact of the death of Brianna Ghey please know that you can talk to a worker. We see you, we will support you and we celebrate you.
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