The Children's Society Engage Toolkit: introduction
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The document summarizes the work of The Children's Society Include Project, which works to influence policy and practice for young carers and their families. It operates several initiatives to support young carers, refugee families, and families affected by issues like HIV. One initiative, the Family Carers Inclusion Project, aims to improve health and social care access for ethnic minority family carers by bringing professionals together and consulting with minority groups to understand needs and develop resources.
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The Children's Society Engage Toolkit: introduction
- 1. Setting The Scene The Children’s Society Include Project, www.youngcarer.com The Children’s Society Include Project The Engage Toolkit
- 2. The Children’s Society Include Project Influencing Policy and Practice for Young Carers and their Families
- 5. Advocating on behalf of young carers and their families in all communities
Editor's Notes
- The include project campaigns for change for young carers and their families. We promote best practice and work in partnership with social workers, teachers, health care professionals to deliver solutions that consider the needs of the whole family. We want to prevent young carers undertaking inappropriate care which affects there own physical and emotional well-being and give them back their childhood. We deliver bespoke basic awareness raising to professionals and agencies that would like more information regarding young carers and their families. We also produce and disseminate a range of resources and publications to inform and support professionals working directly with families and those commissioning services for them (talk a bit more about the main ones later). We have also worked with local authorities to develop policies and procedures to support whole family working for young carers and have consulted on national guidance and policy to include young carers. All of our work is underpinned by the words of young people and over the last 14 years we have continually consulted with them regarding what they would like from professionals and commissioners to better support them and their families. We do this through a range of specialist residential events, parliamentary visits, Young Carers Forum’s and The National Young Carers Festival – a large national event we run in partnership with YMCA Fairthorne Manor every year – we bring together about 1500 young carers from across the country to have a weekend or fun, respite and to tell us what they would like us to take forward.
- Consultations taking place to develop content for an online resource, to establish a one stop e-portal of information for BME groups. This would enable services to be more inclusive of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, including refugee and asylum seeking families. HL will tell you a little more about the refugee toolkit, which is an online resource to support work with young carers from refugee and a/s families. The online resource will build upon info. Info and best practice that is already outhere. That is why you are all here today to share your knowledge and expertise can be shared to
- The Whole Family Pathway was developed in conjunction with PRTC and Disabled Parents Network. This is a free online tool that provides a ‘no wrong door’ approach to support the whole family. It is for all practiioners working across sectors including adults’ and children’s statutory services, health, education and voluntary services to ensure that however or whoever the family (parent or child) in need of support first makes contact with an agency the same processes or pathway will be followed. The WFP will also help practitioners to achieve the key principles of practice
- This toolkit will signpost you to a wealth of resources and information available that we’ve pulled together in a one-stop shop in order to support you to provide holistic support to these families.
- This toolkit will signpost you to a wealth of resources and information available that we’ve pulled together in a one-stop shop in order to support you to provide holistic support to these families.