Once a year, we offer our young carers a chance to attend the Scottish Young Carers Festivals. Suitable respite is put into place, if required, and the adolescents go to festival and have a fantastic weekend. These weekends are often one of the highlights of the year.
Have a look at the videos and see what you think.
Scottish Young Carers Festival 2011
Scottish Young Carers Festival 2012
Scottish Young Carers Festival 2013
At the latest festival, a tent with a camera crew was set up called ‘HAVE YOUR SAY’ to get the much-needed views, opinions and feelings of young carers.
Have a look at what they think of the festivals > Young Carers Views
Carers talk about how their caring role has affected their home life > Home Life and the Caring Role
Young carers offer advice > Advice for Other Young Carers
Young carers talk about how it is to interact with friends in regard to their role as a carer > Friends and Peers
Young carers talk about different professionals, such as social workers, politician and educational psychologists > Professionals
Here young people are talking about how they are treated in schools as young carers. Conistant demands that attitudes need to changed and awareness raised are made > School
Carers talk about their plans for the future and how this is strongly affected by their role as a carer > Future