{"id":73504,"date":"2026-03-20T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=73504"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:59:25","slug":"are-you-a-young-carer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/child-family-support\/young-people\/young-carers\/are-you-a-young-carer\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a young carer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A young carer is someone under the age of 18 who looks after or helps to look after someone who cares for a friend or family member who, due to illness, disability, a mental health problem, or an addiction, cannot cope without their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young carers can take on a variety of roles including practical tasks or emotional support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What a young carer might do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cooking, housework and shopping.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helping cared for in or out of bed, lifting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Listening to worries or concerns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helping the cared for get dressed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Personal care.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Managing family budgets and bills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Administering or collecting medication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help with communication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look after their brothers or sisters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each caring role will look differently, and they may provide care that is not listed above \u2013 this does not mean they are not a young carer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young carer is someone under the age of 18 who looks after or helps to look after someone who cares for a friend or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":73491,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-73504","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 07:44:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73511,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73504\/revisions\/73511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}