the children's society engage toolkit: introduction
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Helen Leadbitter from The Children's society Include Project presents an overview of the work and key messagesTRANSCRIPT
Setting The Scene
The Children’s Society Include Project,www.youngcarer.com
The Children’s Society Include
Project
The Engage Toolkit
The Children’s Society Include Project
Influencing Policy and Practice for
Young Carers and their Families
The Include Project
Young Carers Initiative
National•Influencing policy and practice
Funded by Department for
Education
HampshireWorking with multi-agency services to promote best practice
Funded by Hampshire
County Council
Family Health Inclusion Project
Opportunities for Volunteers
Refugee and Asylum Seeking Families
Funded by Department of
Health
Family CarersWorking with BME families
Funded by Department
of Health
Families affected by HIV
Funded by Elton John AIDS Foundation
Youth in Focus
Young carers champions
Funded by the Lottery
The Include Project
•Awareness raising with professionals•Publications and resources•Training and Development consultancy•Consultation and empowerment with young carers and their families•Parliamentary campaigning
Advocating on behalf of young carers and their families in all
communities
The Family Carers Inclusion project
Aim
To improve engagement and access to health and social care provision for ethnic minority groups, with a specific focus on meeting the needs of family carers.
• WHY?
“There is ample evidence that people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities have a poorer experience of health and social services than the population as a whole”.
Gideon Ben-Tovim
(Chair of Race for Health and Chair, Liverpool PCT, Leading Action on Race Equality and Health, Spring 2010)
“Cultural Concepts of caring are not universally shared throughout communities in Britain; many people from other countries do not have experience of a welfare state and therefore, among a whole range of concepts, would not understand the concept of a ‘carer’. The National Black Carers and Carers Workers Network have highlighted that they have been unable to find a word in Gujarati, Urdu, Punjabi or Bengali which translates into ‘carer’.
Carers Strategy 2008 – Carers at the heart of the 21st Century Families and Communities.
The National Family Carers Inclusion Project
-Work with a range of professionals and organisations – bringing together information, good practice and resources.
-Consultations to explore the needs of BME Family Carers – what are the gaps? What’s missing?
-develop content for an online resource.
www.youngcarer.com
www.refugeetoolkit.org.uk
www.engagetoolkit.org.uk
Helen LeadbitterThe Children’s Society Include ProjectTel: 01962 711511Email: [email protected]
Thank You