Thanks you to those schools who have shown that you support young carers by signing up to out policy and idenifiying a lead in your schools to be responsible for young carers. Many of those leads have also attended our training which is great. The local councillors will be pleased to hear about these schools when we attend our annual overview and scruntany meeting in the summer. I have also linked in with giovernors attending theuir meetings and they have fed back positively also enquiring as to whether the schools they are responsble for have signed up. To date we have -

HIGH SCHOOLS - all have signed up to the policy and identified a lead - of these 28 have done the training

PRIMARY SCHOOLS - 118 have signed up to the policy and identified a lead - of these 60 have done the training

By the end of the academic year we would love to have all primaries signed up and many more trained. So please email me on kerry.mckenna@barnardos.org.uk so i can let you know how your school is doing.