A ‘Young Carer’ is a child or young adult who spends time looking after or helping a member of their family who because of an illness or disability, mental health problem or drug and alcohol issue is unable to take care of everyday tasks themselves without some help. The help you may give could be shopping, making meals, doing the laundry, or perhaps you help out with nursing care, e.g. giving medication or lifting someone up and downstairs or in and out of bed. Maybe you give your time just to be with someone when they need company.
If you live in Stockport and this sounds like you and what you do, maybe we can be of some help.
Being a young carer can have a big impact on the things that are important to growing up. It can affect a young person’s health, social life and self-confidence. Many young carers struggle to juggle their education and caring which can cause pressure and stress.
But young people can learn lots of useful skills by being a young carer.
If you think you or someone you know is a Stockport young carer and not coping, please get in touch with Signpost. Please let us know about you by phoning the office for a chat on 0161 947 4690 or email david@signpostforcarers.org.uk or you can text Katy on 07540 722371.
There are about 700,000 young carers in the UK, that’s about one in 12 secondary aged pupils.
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Like many organisations, we are experiencing increased demand for our services alongside reduced funding and donations. To enable our team to work as effectively and efficiently as possible, we have taken the difficult decision to close our phone lines from 1pm, Monday – Friday.
If you do call us in the afternoon, please do leave a message with your name, number and a summary of your enquiry. Our colleagues will be checking voicemails throughout the afternoon and will call you back as soon as possible. This will be within 2 working days. Alternatively, please email info@signpostforcarers.org.uk
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you in advance for your understanding.
