Young carers
Young carers are children or young people under the age of 18 carrying out significant caringtasks and assuming a level of responsibility for another person, which would normally be takenby an adult.
How can a young carer worker help you?
The young carer service is there to help make caring a little bit easier for you. We can't take away your caring role, but we may be able to give you some extra help or support, give you information and give you breaks from caring.
Advice and suport
If you are being
bullied, or have personal or health problems that you want to discuss in confidence, talk
to us.
Group events and activities
This
is where you get together with other young people who may be dealing with similar issues or problems.
How to deal with ‘the system’
You
may have problems with your school, social services or the NHS for example.
Caring Information
You may need more
information about the person you care for, what their medication does and what other organisations can
help you and your family.
As a young carer, you will be invited to join our groups, go on trips, take part in activities and attend some residential breaks. In order for everyone to have a good time we have to have a few rules that we and young carers have come up with.
What do we do?
We make sure that professionals in Salford are in the know about young carers and the problems that you may face.
We set up new services to help young carers eg. outreach work, training sessions, forums etc. and apply for money to fund events and activities.
If any of these services interest you or if you have any information you think other young carers would find useful let the Young Carer Workers know!
fax: 0161 833 1992
Young Carers Mobile: 07799 831711
In an emergency
If the person you care for seems unwell, has fallen but has no obvious injury, or you are concerned for any reason call NHS Direct (0845 4647), or your family doctor.
If the person you care for collapses, is in severe pain, has breathing difficulties or has taken too many tables – call 999.
If you discover a fire at home – raise the alarm, get out and call 999. Never try to tackle a fire yourself, wait for professional help!
If you need emergency care for the person you look after and it's between 8.30 and 4.30 Monday to Friday, contact social services and ask for the duty social worker. At other times, call 794 8888 and ask for the duty social worker.
If you cannot get home e.g. you have lost of your money and you are worried about the person you are caring for go to the police.
If you feel you just cannot cope any more first, contact the young carers service. If they are not available, then there ar more useful numbers on our helpful organisations sheet.
Downloadable documents
- Helpful organisations (Adobe PDF format, 25kb)
- Rules for groups, activities and residentials (Adobe PDF format, 625kb)
If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.
Who to contact
- Name
- Young Carers Workers
- Address
- PRT Salford Carers Centre
The Angel Healthy Living Centre
1 St Philips Place
off Chapel Street
Salford
M3 6FA - Telephone
- 0161 833 0217
- carers.centre@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 14 October 2008
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