Scottish Young Carers Festival

The motion

That the Parliament recognises the Scottish Young Carers Festival, which ran from 2 to 4 August 2016; notes this highly important festival, which allows nearly 700 young carers to come together and discuss issues that are important to them, provides them with a platform to speak to MSPs, councillors and officials, allows them to have a break from their caring responsibilities and to take part in fun activities; notes the huge contribution that young carers make to Scottish society; recognises that caring responsibilities can affect a young person emotionally, physically, socially, educationally and financially; recognises that young carers can go unnoticed or unrecognised until there is a crisis; notes that there are 759,000 carers aged 16 and over in Scotland and 29,000 young carers; recognises that three out of five people will become carers at some point in their lives and one in 10 is already fulfilling some sort of caring role; notes the valuable work of Carers Trust Scotland, which reaches around 30,000 adult carers and 2,400 young carers from all groups and communities with its network of independent carers centres and young carers services; commends the work of all carers in Scotland, and aims to do more to support them.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Con 21 SNP 8 Lab 6 Green 5 LD 2

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S5M-00948 by reference.