Surrey Military Young Carers
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“A Military Young Carer is someone between the ages of 5 -18 years of age, who helps look after a relative who is or has serviced in the Armed Forces and has a condition, such as a disability, illness, mental health condition, or a drug or alcohol problem.”
Additionally – “A Military Young Carer may be caring for a member of their military family – sibling or parent.”
In the absence of any national definitive and comprehensive data concerning the Armed Forces community we generally have to turn to alternative sources such as the British Legion.
The Legion’s 2014 Household Survey of the ex-Service community estimates that there are currently around 2.8m veterans living in the UK, along with 2.1m dependent adults (including spouses and widows), 1m dependent children, and between 190,000 to 290,000 hidden members of the ex-Service community, who reside in communal establishments such as care homes. In terms of the serving community, as at 1 January 2016 the UK Armed Forces totalled 196,030 individuals, including Reservists. Punter Southall have additionally estimated that the serving community includes around 101,393 dependent adults and 169,570 dependent children.
