Young Carers Survey - Review of Aberdeenshire Young Carer Strategy

The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 was implemented in April 2018 which introduced a number of responsibilities on all Scottish local authorities and health and social care partnerships to support unpaid carers in a different way. One of these responsibilities was to develop and publish a Local Young Carers Strategy for young carers and this was first published in 2018 following consultation with carers and all other interested stakeholders.  

Aberdeenshire Council is reviewing it’s Young Carer Strategy, which is our plan of what we have been doing to support young carers over the last three years.  Your views are very important in helping us identify what we are doing well and how we can improve support to young carers over the next five years.

We want to engage with young carers, those supporting them and anyone with an interest in supporting young carers and so we’re asking for views on this. This survey is for young carers.

A young carer is anyone under the age of 18 (or 18 if still at school) who cares for a family member or friend due to illness, disability, mental ill-health, alcohol or drug dependency. Young carers may look after their mum, dad, brother, sister, grandparent, or someone else close to them.  Young carers may look after the cared-for person on their own or they may be helped by others.

If you would like to be entered into the draw for a chance to win an Amazon Voucher, please provide your contact email or phone number at the end of the survey. Please view Aberdeenshire Council's Engage Aberdeenshire Privacy Notice Nov 2023 on how your data may be used.

This survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. The closing date for survey responses has been extended to 29th September 2024 (23:59).