Release the Cap is a campaign aims to raise awareness of the daily battle young carers/adults face with mental health. Team: @ilsecmsyp @MSYPAaran @EllieMSYP
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We asked MSYPs, SYP staff and Carers trust staff one word in which they thought described our young carers. This graphic below shows how amazing young carers are! 📸 #YoungCarerActionDay #NewCoverPhoto
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📣 Young people have the right to a say in decisions that affect them, and the new @OfficialSYP manifesto sets out the changes they want to see made.
Read their asks to Scotland's decision makers on their new manifesto website, launched today: bit.ly/sypmanifesto
As carers week comes to a close we wanted to take this opportunity to say that we at release the cap hope you have all had an amazing week! 🎉👏🏻
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🎉🥳Well done to the @ReleaseCap team on winning The Donald Macleod Award for Exceptional Teamwork! #SYPAwards21
ALT Alt text: Black image with gold glitter and the SYP logo on it that reads: ‘Release the Cap Team – The Donald Macleod Award for exceptional teamwork’
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Up next, it's The Donald Macleod Award for Exceptional Teamwork sponsored by @davidhumeinst. #SYPAwards21
The nominees are:
👏 The Black History Month planning team
👏 @CJayQuigley, @WiktoriaMSYP, & @EmilyMSYP
👏 Marine Conservation Society AGM Steering Group
👏 @ReleaseCap
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Today is a landmark day for children and young people in Scotland. As #UNCRCScotland passes through parliament, it’s important to think about what having children’s rights protected in law means to us. This is what it means to me !
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the stage 3 debate of the #UNCRCScotland is today! We have a chance to change the lives of all young people. The UNCRC is our young peoples futures and the future is our young people!
This #YoungCarerActionDay has been a blast! We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved. We will continue to advocate for young carers and young adult carers. @OfficialSYP @SYPBoard @CarersTrustScot
Finally, we hear from @CJayQuigley ! C-Jay takes this chance to explain how proud she is of all young carers in Scotland. This #YoungCarerActionDay lets take the time to appreciate and show how proud we are of every young carer. 💜
Charlotte is a young carer and sharers her views on #YoungCarersActionDay "it’s also celebrating the variety of different young carers" we at RTC agree today is about celebration of all the amazing work that young carers do! 🎊
We now have @EllieMSYP who is a member of the RTC campaign, She speaks from personal experience of what today means to her. “Raising awareness is just the start, we need to look to the future and take action” #YoungCarersActionDay 🙌
Next up is @WiktoriaMSYP, who takes the time to talk from personal experience as a young carer but also thanks our young people with caring responsibilities for all their hard work
“As a young carer things haven’t always been easy” @ilsecmsyp discusses how growing up things were not easy but #YoungCarersActionDay will hopefully be a first step to make things easier for our young people 🌟
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Up Next, @ilsecmsyp discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns on young people. She says the impacts on education and mental health have been particularly devastating.
Her reflections are particularly relevant on #YoungCarersActionDay.
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Now we have @kaylamsyp who thanks our young carers and young adult carers for all the work and dedication they put into their caring roles. #YoungCarersActionDay
We have a young carer next! @ruth_williams54 who sharers why this day is important to her 💗. “Young carers action day means a chance for young carers and others to raise awareness around young carers and break any stigmas”
Next up is one of our co-founders @MSYPAaran 📣 “For too often young carers are overlooked or sometimes forgotten about”. This needs to change and that’s why #YoungCarersActionDay is important!