House of Commons Select Committee
YCRG director, Jo Aldridge will be giving evidence on young carers at a House of Commons Select Committee on Children, Schools and Families (‘children beneath the radar’) on 6 February 2008.  The Committee is seeking evidence and expertise on vulnerable children who are not known to services, or whose particular needs are not known to services.

Dedicated to the One I Love...
Documentary photographers Liz Lock & Mishka Henner spent two months working with twelve carers aged 13 to 16, in Greater Manchester, gathering anecdotes, personal reflections and visual testimonies of their lives looking after loved ones in mental or physical need. To view a slide show of the photographic exhibition, called 'Dedicated to the One I Love', please click on the following link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/documentoldham/DedicatedToTheOneILove

'Pictures of Young Carers' - PDF document now availiable to download - See downloadable publications.

This research project has been graded ‘Outstanding’ by the Economic and Social Research Council – the highest grade possible for any research project funded by the ESRC. Based on evaluations of the end of award report, the Outstanding grade reflects evaluators’ judgements that the project makes an ‘important contribution to the development of the subject and that it makes an exceptional research contribution well above average or very high in relation to the level of the award’.

Findings from the research study are presented and discussed in the downloadable document – Pictures of Young Caring.

Loughborough University Prestigious Lecture Series
The Queen’s Anniversary Prize Public Lecture
Wednesday 23 May 2007
17.30 – 18.30
Children, young people and childhood today – Perspectives from the office of the Children’s Commissioner

Presented by the Children’s Commissioner for England
Sir Al Aynsley-Green

To download the poster for this events click here

Queen’s Anniversary Prize

The Queen’s Anniversary Prize (2004) for Higher and Further Education has been awarded to Loughborough (Department of Social Sciences) in recognition of its outstanding and widely respected work in evaluating and helping develop social policy-related programmes, including young carers. The prizes are awarded biennially in recognition of outstanding educational achievement in areas of service and benefit to the nation. Our thanks to all of you who have supported us over the years. Without your contribution and cooperation in research studies, evaluations etc and without the participation of the children, young people and their families with whom you work, the research would not have been possible.

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