Hello everyone, I know I don't use the discussion boards very often, but felt some of you may be interested in this. Did anyone see this week's episode of 'Skins'? I was surprised to see that it acquired a new character for the episode, who is a young carer. (If you havent seen it and want to, I'll try not to put in too many spoilers, but just be ...

Hi everyone, This is just to let you know that this Sunday, The Sunday Times will be featuring an article on young carers to launch it's Christmas fundraising campaign to support young carers across the country. You might remember some time ago we asked you for your comments about youngcarers.net and how it helped you - well those comments ...

Hi everyone, Several young carers, along with our own resident expert Alex, were featured on The Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2 this Monday. If you didn't hear it, for the next few days you can listen online by going to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_vine_mon (The young carers section starts about an hour into it, so ...

Well, thanks for your comments, Kiwi - we've passed them on to Alex and our other colleagues who were involved in this, and they're all really delighted that it's had a good response. What about the rest of you - did anyone else read the article? If not, you can see it on the internet at ...

Just thought we'd let you know - there's going to be quite a big article about young carers in this week's Sunday Times (5th August). They spoke to some of our colleagues here at The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, so we're hoping it should be quite a good one! Anyway, if you can get the chance to see a copy of it, we'd be ...