Kirklees Young Carers – Barnardo’s

A young carer looks after another person who has an illness or disability who lives in the same household. They could be helping to care for their mother, father, brother, sister or someone else in their household. This could mean a variety of undertakings from listening and/or keeping them company, cooking meals, making drinks, cleaning, tidying the house, providing personal care, doing shopping, helping with medication, organising finances, to name a few. 

We work alongside young carers to develop their skills and strengths to achieve their own goals. Young carers may be supported by Kirklees Young Carers to reach their goals in a variety of ways including:

• one to one and group support
• activity days
• support around education, training, and employment
• speaking to other agencies and professionals about how they can help
• raising awareness of young carer issues and delivering training to other professionals
• helping parents to improve the health and wellbeing of their children

Kirklees Young Carers provides support to young carers/young adult carers aged 8-17 yrs old.

Referrals can be sent directly from the young carer, family, education, health service, local authority, police, or any other statutory agencies. You can get full details of the service and information on how to make a referral on our website Kirklees Young Carers | Barnardo's (barnardos.org.uk)

where we can send you the referral forms and guides.  If you don’t have access to the above, you’re welcome to call us on 01484 426100 but please be advised that this is not a permanently manned phone line, and you may have to leave a message and we will return your call asap.