PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Carers: Young People (3 September 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.2 of the Carers Action Plan, what criteria will be used to determine best practice in the identification of young carers and access to support.

Asked by:
Sarah Champion (Labour)

The Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education are working together to review best practice in the identification of young carers and their access to support. We will shortly be launching the tendering process to recruit an organisation to conduct the review, and the criteria will be determined as part of that process. We have committed to completing the review by Easter 2019.

The review will include a specific focus on young carers from seldom heard groups and the information obtained from this work will be used to inform a further project, which is planned for 2019-20.

Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
11 September 2018