Young carers and young adult carers

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Support and information

Health and social care services can support you.

There are also organisations to help young carers specifically. They offer advice and information and also the chance to talk to others in a similar situation to you.

• Carers Trust – Who are young carers?
• Carers Trust – Young adult carers guide
• Carers Trust – Life in a Spin interactive website
• ChildLine

Read the Scottish Government’s:

• Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC)
• Young carers statement