Young Carer Awareness Week

11th -15th March 2024

This week has been Young Carers Awareness Week and all the children have been learning about young carers; who they are, what they do and how they might be feeling. They all wrote a lovely  messages of appreciation for anyone  who is a young carer,  these will be added to the ' A special message for You ' area on our young carers display. 

Is Your Child a Young Carer? Are you a Young Carer?

A young carer is a child or young person under 18 who provides regular and ongoing care and emotional support to a family member. The family member may be ill, disabled, or has a mental health problem or an addiction. (Generally helping out around the house and doing jobs doesn’t mean that you're a young carer.)

A young carer does much more, including:

• shopping, cooking, cleaning, washing, collecting prescriptions
• helping with bathing, dressing, and taking medication
• emotional support, such as talking to someone who is distressed or helping someone to communicate
• looking after younger siblings
• managing the family budget  

For more information about Walsall Young Carers Services click here to visit their website

Well - being is a real focus at Palfrey Junior School, we like to give the children lots of opportunities to talk about their thoughts and feelings.  We currently run: 1:1  mentoring/ well - being sessions,  group mentoring and well - being sessions, nurture groups and social clubs and  a Young carers group would be a new addition we could offer.

If you think your child is a young carer we would really like to know so that we can offer them support in school.

Please email support@palfrey-j.walsall.sch.uk and we can get back to you for a chat and  send you out a short information form to complete and some information about Walsall Young Carers Services.