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Young carers

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Are you between 5 to 18 years?

Do you:

  • Have a family member who has an illness, disability or addiction?
  • Help to look after them?

If the answer to these questions is yes, then you’re a young carer.

Young carers undertake a wide range of caring roles and responsibilities in the family home, including:

  • Provide emotional support
  • Give personal care
  • Helping to give medicine
  • Undertaking housework
  • Looking after siblings
  • Budgeting

Slough Children First has a duty to identify and carry out an assessment whenever it appears that a young carer needs support. This is called a young carers’ needs assessment.

We also have a young carers screening tool that should be completed to help identify whether a child may be a young carer.

Slough Children First works with Together As One to support young carers in Slough. This includes by:

  • Raising awareness of young carers
  • Creating fun activities
  • Making it easier for you to get support

However, access to activities is also not dependent on completion of an assessment, provided a child has been identified as being a young carer through completion of the young carers screening tool.

This pathway outlines the routes that can be followed depending on the need.

Young carers’ rights

Just like adult carers, young carers have rights too, including the right to a young carers assessment.
Rights are in place for young carers to help ensure you get the help you deserve.

Find out more on the NHS website.

Requesting a young carers’ assessment

If you are a young person, parent or carer…

  • Contact Slough Children First on 01753 875362
  • MASH will review the needs and allocate for a young carers assessment
  • A screening tool will be completed as part of the assessment and sent to Slough Young Carers Support for activities

If you are a professional…

  • Complete a young carers’ screening tool
  • Send the young carers screening tool along with a MARF to YoungCarers@sloughchildrenfirst.co.uk
  • MASH will review the needs and allocate for an assessment
  • Assessment is complete and the screening tool is sent to Slough young carers for support

Accessing activities for young carers

To access activities for young carers

The Young Carers Programme gives you:

  • A break from caring
  • Time to relax and have fun
  • A chance to meet others who understand

The sessions are:

  • Shaped by what young carers tell us they want and need
  • Relaxed, fun and supportive

Activities include:

  • Creative arts and crafts 
  • Games and group activities 
  • Fitness and movement sessions 
  • Trips during school holidays 
  • Wellbeing, confidence, and future-planning workshops

You can take part as much — or as little — as feels right for you.

Current young carers sessions in Slough:

  • Ages 5 to 10 – Thursdays, 4.30 to 6pm, mostly online, with some in-person sessions during school holidays
  • Ages 11 to 18 (up to 25 with SEND) – Wednesdays, 5.30 to 7pm, a mix of online and in-person sessions

For more information about Young Carers activities and support in Slough, please contact Saher Ahmed by email: saher@togetherasone.org.uk or call 07547 559050.

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