Past Events

The expertise of The Children’s Society Include Programme and the National development work that has taken place to ensure the inclusion of young carers and whole family needs in practice and policy inputs not only into delivery of events for our funded work but also  to providing bespoke consultancy and training to a range of organisation and Local Authorities. 

You can get an overview of our past events and the work we have achieved by reading our Annual Report

Working with the Whole Family: Developing the vision for young carers

Include Partnership Conference Report (2011)

The Children’s Society was funded by the Department for Education (previously Department for Children, Schools and Families) to deliver five training events focusing on the specific needs of children caring in families where there is parental substance misuse, parental mental ill health and/or dual diagnosis.

‘We would recommend the approach we have taken with the Include Team. They were engaged in contributing to the emerging Young Carers’ Strategy in Bristol and engaged in workshops before the conference and linked us in with national developments. This was not really a part of their brief but it made us feel they were committed to a ‘Bristol’ perspective and not merely rolling out a national programme’ 

Mike Nicholson, Area Manager (Social Care), Bristol

Supporting Young Carers and their Families

The Include Partnership Training Programme (2007–2010)

In 2007 the Department for Education (DfE) funded The Children’s Society Include Programme in partnership with The Princess Royal Trust for Carers for 4 years to deliver capacity building and support to professionals working with young carers and their families. We worked to build the capacity of professionals working with families, where a parent or a child has a disability, physical or mental illness, or where parents misuse substances to identify and support families to prevent or reduce young people from significant caring roles.

‘The quality of the seminars was very high, they were stimulating, the leaders knew their subjects and facilitated the groups very well.’ 

Maria Bloor, Thurrock Borough Council 

Affecting Change for Families: Improving services for young carers and families affected by HIV/AIDS

London Capacity Building Days (2010)

The Children’s Society Include Project has been awarded funding by the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) to support organisations and professionals to build capacity to improve practice and services for young carers and their families affected by HIV.