Supporting young carers

Description

With testimony from young carers themselves, this demonstrates practical actions schools and teachers can take to support their education. Initiatives and approaches shown include: young carers cards, the use of lead teachers, lunchtime support groups, mentoring programmes and dedicated training. There's also testimony from young carers themselves on what has worked for them and why.

Runtime

17 min

Series

Subjects

Geography

Genre

Date of Publication

2008

Database

Alexander Street

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