Our campaigns
Our campaigns are shaped by the voices and experiences of young carers themselves.
2024-25 School Inspection & Early Identification
We want to get young carers identified in schools so they can access support earlier, as well as UK school inspection bodies to include young carers in their frameworks.
2023-24 Health & WB
In our fourth campaign year, we focused on reducing negative impacts on young carers’ health and wellbeing.
2022-23 Education
In the third year of the network (2022-23), we raised awareness about young carers with education providers, help schools prepare and respond to the new schools’ census category.
2021-22 Mental Health
In the second year of the network (2021-22), we campaigned on young carers’ mental health and improving their experiences in mental health services.
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.
“YCNV has enabled dozens of young carers from different young carer services to learn from each other and to drive a campaign based on what the young people feel is important. It has also enabled their voices and experiences to feed directly into the first-ever parliamentary inquiry relating to young carers, utilising creative methods of capturing their views.”
Andy McGowan, Policy and Practice Manager for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers at Carers Trust
