We are all about improving the lives of young carers.

We meet up regularly to work together to campaign on issues that affect us.

  • Between April and September 2025, we’re campaigning for UK school inspection bodies to include young carers in their frameworks. Keep an eye out on our website and Insta for campaign updates!

  • Read our Birmingham Day 2025 blog post here!

Latest news:

Here is a film made by people in YCNV to tell you more about it.

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Our young people created a resource of things that have really helped them in school/college. It can be as simple as asking "are you okay?" 💬 Put this resource up in the staff room or discuss it in the team meeting. Downloadable on ycnv.o
Our young people created a resource of things that have really helped them in school/college. It can be as simple as asking "are you okay?" 💬 Put this resource up in the staff room or discuss it in the team meeting. Downloadable on ycnv.org.uk/resources #carersweek2025 #CaringAboutEquality #youngcarers #ycnv
Today is the young carers day of #carersweek2025 This powerful poem by Jesse from Oxfordshire captures the feelings of being a young carer without appropriate support. Don't look past, go to ycnv.org.uk/take-action to see how you can help. #Carin
Today is the young carers day of #carersweek2025 This powerful poem by Jesse from Oxfordshire captures the feelings of being a young carer without appropriate support. Don't look past, go to ycnv.org.uk/take-action to see how you can help. #CaringAboutEquality #youngcarers #ycnv
Often young carers don’t get identified until a crisis.💔 By playing a video in school assembly, asking a few questions can help identify these vulnerable young people. We have prepared it all for you, go to ycnv.org.uk/resources to check out
Often young carers don’t get identified until a crisis.💔 By playing a video in school assembly, asking a few questions can help identify these vulnerable young people. We have prepared it all for you, go to ycnv.org.uk/resources to check out our assembly resource pack. Even better, use it and tell us what you think. #CarersWeek2025 #CaringAboutEquality #youngcarers #ycnv
This is one of the 7 Asks we submitted to the APPG inquiry last year. We need support in place so that we, young carers don't become the persons needing care in future. 🦾 Watch the full video on our reel or go to ycnv.org.uk/resources #CarersWeek2025 #CaringAboutEquality #youngcarers #ycnv
Our young people created a resource of things that have really helped them in school/college. It can be as simple as asking "are you okay?" 💬 Put this resource up in the staff room or discuss it in the team meeting. Downloadable on ycnv.o Today is the young carers day of #carersweek2025 This powerful poem by Jesse from Oxfordshire captures the feelings of being a young carer without appropriate support. Don't look past, go to ycnv.org.uk/take-action to see how you can help. #Carin Often young carers don’t get identified until a crisis.💔 By playing a video in school assembly, asking a few questions can help identify these vulnerable young people. We have prepared it all for you, go to ycnv.org.uk/resources to check out
This is one of the 7 Asks we submitted to the APPG inquiry last year. We need support in place so that we, young carers don't become the persons needing care in future. 🦾 Watch the full video on our reel or go to ycnv.org.uk/resources #CarersWeek2

Our campaigns

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2024-25 School Inspection & Early Identification
2024-25 School Inspection & Early Identification

We want to get young carers identified in schools so they can access support earlier, as well as getting Ofsted to ask about young carers in school inspections.

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2023-24 Health & WB
2023-24 Health & WB

In our third campaign year, the group want to focus on reducing impacts on young carers’ health and wellbeing.

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2022-23 Education
2022-23 Education

In the third year of the network (2022-23), the group wanted to raise awareness about young carers with education providers, help schools prepare and respond to the new schools’ census category, and help schools and other education settings better support young carers.

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2021-22 Mental Health
2021-22 Mental Health

In the second year of the network (2021-22), the group wanted their collective campaign to focus on mental health.

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2020-21 Education
2020-21 Education

In the first year of the network (2020-21), the group wanted their collective campaign to focus on identifying and supporting young carers in education settings.

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