Wie meistert die 12-jährige Sarah ihren Alltag, wenn ihre Mutter stark an Polyarthritis leidet? Welche Aufgaben im Haushalt übernimmt sie, die über das «normale Mass» an Ämtli hinausgehen? Hat der 15-jährige Joël manchmal das Gefühl, zu kurz zu kommen neben seinen Brüdern Alain (17)…
The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with organisations working for carers (Anziani e Non Solo, CARER, COMIP and Eurocarers). The aim is to raise schools professionals’ awareness on young carers and to…
The UK charity Partnership for Children has developed an inspiring school based programme – Zippy’s Friends - to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young children. Starting from the recognition that modern life can be full of challenges…
All over Europe, there are children, teenagers and young adults who take care of an ill or disabled family member. Studies suggest that 1-2 teenagers in every school class are taking on those responsibilities. We call them Young Carers and…
The latest issue of the DG Justice Newsletter on the Rights of Child features a whole section dedicated to Raising awareness on the issue of young carers! It includes a report of the Interest Group on Informal Carers, held on…
While the general issue of informal care seems to be (slowly but increasingly) recognised by policy makers, young carers do not yet feature on national or European policy agendas. During the meeting of the European Parliament Informal Carers Interest Group held…
On 6th March, the European Parliament Informal Carers Interest Group met to discuss on “Young carers – challenges and solutions”. The programme is available here. The aim of the meeting were to: Highlight the situation of young carers, Underline their needs and challenges,…
Taking on caring tasks without being prepared can have negative consequences for adolescent young carers’ mental health. The lack of appropriate support at this transitional phase of their life may jeopardise [...] their life chances (OECD, 2016). In addition to the impact…
On 16-17 January 2018, the project partners met in Brussels for the kick off meeting, where they started planning all the activities to be implemented through the life of the project. Over the 39 months of the project’s duration (January…