An Introduction to Supporting Young Carers

Learn how to identify and support young carers in schools through this online, interactive training session.

This introductory session is brought to you by the Southern Universities Network, following some collaborative work with The Children's Society.

Suitable for school staff in secondary schools, including SLT, pastoral, teaching, and non-teaching staff, as well as those who work broadly across the education sector, this interactive session will help you to:

- Understand the term young carer and the legislation relating to young carers
- Consider the caring responsibilities which young carers undertake and the possible impacts of these
- Be informed about the potential identifiers of young carers
- Understand factors which may make a young carer 'hidden’
- Develop an awareness of how to identify and support young carers in school

The available dates are listed below, and the sessions will run from 15:15 – 16:45 on Zoom:

Tuesday 26 November 2024 

Wednesday 19 March 2025


This CPD session has been certified by The CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. If you attend this training session you can receive a personalised CPD certificate, which you can keep for your professional development records. If you attend, we will share your name, organisation and email address with the CPD Certification Service in order for your certificate to be sent. Please contact us if you do not wish us to do so.

If you have any questions, please contact sun@soton.ac.uk or nadia.lester@winchester.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you.

The SUN Team