Pupils at Hanford School, Child Okeford, have been visited by the fabulous team from MYTIME Young Carers, a Dorset-based charity which provides much-needed support and advice for young carers across the county.

Hanford teacher Stephanie McMillan said: “We organised these sessions with MYTIME Young Carers to give the girls some knowledge about what other children may be dealing with in their day-to-day lives and how we can support them.
“The workshops went extremely well, the girls were full of questions and ideas about how they could assist Young Carers in our communities and discussed how they could support the charity in future.”

The MYTIME charity staff led a series of workshops for each of the school’s year groups, each one tailored to the girls’ age. Pupils learned about what a young carer is, how having caring responsibilities at a young age can impact on a young person’s life and how everyone can offer support to those in such a situation. The girls fully engaged with the sessions and had insightful discussions around support, empathy and fundraising ideas.