January 2025
Welcome to your January DSL Planner Page!
This month our Planner focus is on Young Carers.
A young carer is someone aged under 18 who helps look after a relative who has a disability, illness, mental health condition, or a drug or alcohol problem. Most young carers look after one of their parents or care for a brother or sister. They do extra jobs in and around the home, such as cooking, cleaning, or helping someone to get dressed and move around.
Some children give a lot of physical help to a sibling who is disabled or ill. Along with doing things to help their sibling, they may also be giving emotional support to both their sibling and their parents.
It is known that the young carers that we know about are just the tip of the iceberg with many more going unnoticed by schools and other education settings. Research by Barnardo’s (2017) identified that over 40% of teachers were not confident that they would be able to identify a young carer in their class. A Carers Trust survey found that over a quarter of young carers find it hard to balance caring with school and college work.
What do you and your staff know about Young Carers? Is the training in your setting up-to-date?
Join Safeguarding Network and let us help you develop a structured and comprehensive approach that builds a strong and sustainable safeguarding culture.
Member benefits - DSL Training Materials covering Young Carers
Our membership includes a 2-year staff training curriculum covering every area in KCSiE with bitesize sessions designed to fit into your staff meetings every month, including the subject of young carers. DSL materials include:
- Handouts
- PowerPoint presentations with presenter notes.
- Quizzes
- Whole Setting Update and Presenter Notes - the General Safeguarding Update training to be delivered by the DSL.
- Scenarios - Safeguarding Scenarios with separate Scenario DSL notes to aid discussion and support sharing of best practice.
All DSL materials present the subject matter in a straight-forward and practical way, keeping the safeguarding of children at the heart of the topic.
SPECIAL OFFER - £20 Safeguarding Network membership discount.
Currently, we offer a range of 20 different training courses. Some of our courses are delivered online, some are e-learning programmes which you or your staff can complete entirely at your own convenience. Become a Safeguarding Network Member today and receive a £20 discount on the joining cost. Membership starts from £99+VAT per term for an annual subscription, and £109+VAT per term for a termly subscription. Enter the code PLANNER20 at the checkout to receive £20 off your first invoice. All members have access to the full 24 month Calendar of DSL Materials and:
- Regular bulletins
- Webinars on hot topics
- Heavily discounted online learning
- Training discounts
- Initial safeguarding advice
- KCSiE implementation tool
- KCSiE discounted staff knowledge checker
- Discounts on places at our annual safeguarding conference
- INSET training pack
Offer expires on 31st January 2025. Limited to one use per setting where the setting is not already a member of Safeguarding Network. Offer can be withdrawn at any time. If used more than once per setting or by member settings, the full membership price will be charged as appropriate. No alternatives (cash or otherwise) will be offered.
Question: What can a school/college do to show that it understands someone being a young carer?
You’ll find the answer on our Young Carers resource page… We have a whole set of quiz questions and scenarios for your team in our member resource packs.
Enter your details to download the free poster for this month
Please note that by entering your details to download any document on this page, you are signing up to our free fortnightly safeguarding bulletin keeping you up to date in developments in the world of safeguarding. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the link in the bulletin.
Check out our free resources
The last step
Our model works for a growing number of schools, colleges and other settings – ensuring they have a structured and comprehensive approach that builds a strong and sustainable safeguarding culture.
-
There are lots of benefits
Check out the different levels of membership to find one that suits you and your setting and ensure you have a structured approach in place.
-
There’s no tie in beyond the term
If you join and you’re not happy, we are happy to discuss and have a no-quibble policy.
-
Still unsure?
You can contact us and arrange a free virtual tour & tutorial of what we have to offer.
Shopping cart
Action Required