Details of your booking start date (the date from which you can access the course) will be in the email that you received this link in.

To access the course from this date, please click here and enter the username and password that was emailed to you.

This course is designed to be used in one of two ways:
Each login will give access to the chosen course for 10 consecutive days and the course (or parts of the course) can be accessed as many times as required within this 10-day period.

1. A group of staff accessing the course together at the same time. For this we recommend that you use a digital projector and large screen with speakers to amplify the presentation. This has advantage of group interaction and monitoring of involvement. OR
2. Each member of staff has an individual login and accesses the training on their own device. This has the advantage of flexibility, as the course can be accessed at a time/place to suit the individual (in school/college or at home).

You will see when you access the course that the video presentation has a linked PDF document of course materials.

When you click on the course materials in the online learning environment, they will open on your screen. To download them and save/print them, please click the download icon (a file icon with an arrow on it) to the top right of the page.

These materials include handouts of the PowerPoint slides and other relevant documents which will be referred to during that presentation. These PDF files can be downloaded and saved onto your computer. We suggest that you start by printing the PowerPoint handouts, and decide as the course progresses whether you need to print the other documents. You may prefer to access them onscreen.

This course lasts approximately 45 minutes.

If you (or any of your colleagues using the login) have watched all the video presentations through once and then log back into the website to go over the material again, you will get the following message:

‘You are not registered for any courses at this time’.

To get back into the course you need to:

• Click on the ‘Completed Courses’ option, (at the top, to the right of ‘Current Courses’)
• Click on the course name or icon
• Click on whichever element you would like to revisit

The course tutor for Supporting Students who are Young Carers is Sarah Collin.

Sarah has been supporting young carers between the ages of 5 – 25 years old and their families for 20 years. She has worked directly with three local authorities to deliver young carers services, of which she has been in a managerial role for award-winning young carer services for the past 10 years. Sarah regularly chairs, participates and presents in National health, wellbeing and development forums and research projects, advocating for the rights and support needs of young carers and their families. She creates pathways for young carers to use their voices to influence decision-makers and co-produce services that meet their needs. An accomplished trainer, Sarah has worked alongside the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department of Education, NHS England and multiple VSOs to create research-informed training packages to support workplaces across a variety of sectors to effectively identify and support young carers. The processes Sarah equips workplaces to develop assist in the collection of accurate data and provides effective evidence to support CQC and Ofsted inspections. She works as an independent young carers’ trainer and consultant.

There is an optional multiple choice assessment to participate in after accessing the training. There are 15 questions randomly chosen from a bank of 30 and you will have 15 minutes to complete the assessment. There is no pass mark, this is simply an activity to help consolidate the information you have learned on the course. If you choose an incorrect answer you will be able to see the correct answer when you have completed the assessment.

Once you have completed the course, the certificate should be available to download from the learning platform in the same place that you accessed the course. The certificate must be downloaded before your access to the course expires. If you have any problems, please contact us by emailing online@communicate-ed.org.uk. (online at communicate-ed dot org dot uk dot )

We really appreciate your feedback on the course so that we can continue to improve our content and delivery each year. We have created a short online evaluation form that you can fill in in just a couple of minutes. Please click here to fill in the evaluation form.