It’s #CarersRightsDay! This year is all about knowing and using carers’ rights, from workplace support to financial help. It’s also a vital day as we push the government to deliver fairer rights for carers now and in the future. Find out more: https://t.co/UE4BhWd3X3

There are still some places left to book on the below Young Carers Alliance forum this Wednesday! #youngcarers #youthengagement

The next Young Carers Alliance forum will be focused on young carer involvement on Wednesday the 19th of February! You can sign up here and share with anyone in your networks who might be interested https://t.co/h3xc7kRilf..

Our proposed amendment to the Mental Health Bill requiring practitioners to improve identification and support for children in the family when detaining someone under the Act received cross-party support in the Lords yesterday, thank you @KeeleyMP for tabling the amendment.

Congratulations to Izzy who won a Jack Petchey Achievement Award in November 2024 for being kind, helpful, and welcoming! Find out more here: https://t.co/8BxD2vKHu6 #youngcarers #Enfield @JPFoundation @CarersTrust @Enfield_Carers @YCAlliance

Our Young Carers Illustrations Project already runs in the UK and Japan. We are excited to be talking to people in Canada and Ireland this coming week about whether we can help them. See our website details of our free resources : https://t.co/eZosMNxUmL @YCAlliance

Welcome to some recent members of the Young Carers Alliance 🎉- Hammersmith and Fulham council @LBHF, @BCChildrensHosp and schools @UTCSouthDurham @Ashby_Hill_Top, St Aidan's Church of England Academy and Dover Grammar School for Boys @DGSBTweet

Only 28% of schools recorded the number of young carers in their school last year. By including young carers in your school’s census data collection, you can help ensure that young carers get the care and support they need: https://t.co/NtejU0yYEc

📅 Tomorrow (16th Jan) marks the 2025 School Census! Young carers are vastly underrepresented in the census, leaving many without the support they need. Learn how to record young carers on the census and help them get support: https://t.co/lQDrBVv3YF

Please push this first aid session to any young adult carer (14-25's) its free, and available across Dorset. The first session to happen in Dorset so lets make it a success! @BCPCouncil @CarersDorset #firstaid #carers #youngcarers #Dorset #ThursdayThoughts #Training #5th #free

We were thrilled to win the Young Carers Award at @CYPNow Awards for our work on the Young Carers Alliance 🏆 Huge congratulations to fellow finalists @CarersInBeds @family_action Windsor and Maidenhead, both also Alliance members, doing excellent work supporting young carers 💙

⚽️Last night, our young carers & their families enjoyed an unforgettable evening watching the @ManCity game! Incredible feedback enjoying time together, making memories! With thanks to our wonderful friends @citcmancity ! #ChidFriendlyCity #SupportNotSympathy

We were delighted to deliver a workshop today along with @carequalitycomm, @ycalliance member @WSCCNews and a young adult carer at #NCASC24 about improving transitions for young carers and parent carers 🙌

To help mark #CarersRightsDay yesterday, @Nicbrimblecombe shared a brilliant blog about the support that young carers and their families want, need and value most. Read the full blog here: https://t.co/jySwdLYJb0 @CPEC_LSE @YCAlliance

Welcome to the Young Carers Alliance Crossroads Care Kent! @Crossroads_Kent

@PlymUni @JohnBangs15 @KingstonCarers @childrensociety Helen Bolt from @SheffYoungC now presenting on their MPACT programme for young carers in families affected by drug or alcohol addiction. 25 out of the 26 children involved in the programme had significant caring roles at the start of programme.

@PlymUni @JohnBangs15 @KingstonCarers Linda Littler from @childrensociety is now presenting about support needs for young carers in armed forces community. Some of these families can move as many as 7 or 8 times during childhood as a result of deployments.

@PlymUni @JohnBangs15 and Ana Graca are now sharing the brilliant resources which they have created with the help of @KingstonCarers to help have conversations with the youngest young carers. Freely available to young carer services - more than 700 already distributed

Carly Ellicott from @PlymUni has been talking through her research to improve the understanding around the support needs for the youngest young carers (under 8 years olds)

Our latest @YCAlliance Forum is taking place today focused on assessments and support. To start, @andy_mcgowan has set the scene and @Nicbrimblecombe is now talking through her research on whole-family approaches to assessment/support for young carers