AQW 29464/22-27

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 27/06/2025
Answered On Date: 16/07/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the role of young carers in developing and updating regulations and legislation on the provision of support for carers; and (ii) what new regulations or legislation (a) has been introduced; and (b) is planned to be introduced as a direct result of this involvement, before the end of the 2022-27 Assembly mandate.

Answer:

The Social Care Collaborative Forum has been established to take forward a number of key priorities including a review of carers legislation (inclusive of young carers) to be carried out by 2028.

Young carers interests are fully embedded in this work through the participation of Barnardos and Action for Children in the Forum’s Supporting Carers workstream, however no new carers legislation, or changes to existing carers legislation, will be brought through in the remainder of this mandate.