We are all about improving the lives of young carers.

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

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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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A positive meeting with the Chief Inspector of #ofsted , Sir Martyn Oliver. Young people spoke about including young carers in school inspection framework and shared the checklist co-produced by YCNV. 🗣️📃 A big thanks to @carers.trust for organising!

Another great young people session last week. We have so many brilliant ideas for our *young carer checklist* for school inspection bodies.🏫 We are looking forward to meeting the Chief Inspector of Ofsted next week! 🗣️ #youngcarers #ycnv #ofsted

"Teachers educate us, let us teach the educators." Join our young people online meetup *next Tuesday, 13/5 5pm* to give your ideas on how school inspection bodies like #Ofsted can include #youngcarers in their framework. Speak to your young carers worker, or visit ycnv.org.uk to help us to get schools to LISTEN. 🤝

Pass the phone🤳 ! At Birmingham day, young people made this reel to speak to YOU about young carers #ycnv #youngcarers

Our campaigns

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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.

2023-24 Health & WB

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

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.

2021-22 Mental Health

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

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.