Scottish Executive Central Research Unit
YOUNG CARERS: ASSESSMENT AND SERVICES
Literature review of identification,
needs assessment and service
provision for young carers and their families
Pauline Banks, Eamonn Gallagher,
Malcolm Hill and Sheila Riddell
Centre for the Child and Society
and Strathclyde Centre for Disability
Research University of Glasgow2002
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CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Chapter 1: Introduction
Policy and Legislative Underpinning of the
Rights of Young Carers in Scotland
Chapter 2: Definitions and Categories
Official definitions
Operational definitions
Population estimates of young carers
Characteristics of young carers
Chapter 3: Identification Processes
and Inhibiting Factors
Identifying individual 'young carers'
Awareness raising
Chapter 4: Needs Assessment
Assessment frameworks
The legal and policy basis of assessment
Assessing young carers
Chapter 5: Services
Approaches to service provision for young carers
Inter-agency collaboration: the main players
Mental Health Issues
Voluntary organisations: young carers projects
Services for Young Carers in Scotland
Chapter 6: Evaluation
Evaluation: the Scottish scene
Chapter 7: Conclusions
References
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