National carers strategy: child rights and wellbeing impact assessment

3. Will there be different impacts on different groups of children and young people?

As the final chapter in the Strategy covers support and initiatives targeted towards young carers, the impact of the Strategy will improve outcomes specifically for young people with caring responsibilities.

Within this group, young carers will be positively impacted in different ways depending on their individual circumstances and the support they access. For example, young carers in schools should be able to access appropriate educational support. Another example is that eligible young carers will be able to access the Young Scot young carer package and receive digital vouchers and access to online streaming; this is particularly helpful for young carers with lived and living experience of poverty and/ or for those who may have particularly intensive caring roles and would benefit from a break. Similarly, the Young Carer Grant is not means-tested but will likely be of proportionally greater benefit to those in lower income households. Young carers' rights to social care support under the Carers Act are based on the principal of personalisation to each individual's identified needs with the aim that the level and type of support is tailored appropriately.