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Five-year-old among 1,322 children registered as carers in Lincolnshire
A 5-year-old is among 1,322 children and young people registered as carers in Lincolnshire.
The figures have been released by Lincolnshire County Council in response to a freedom of information request.
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United: Isabelle Bull, 9, is one of 1,300 young carers in Lincolnshire, She helps look after her mum Becky who has kidney failure.
Young carers are defined as children under 18 who look after a relative with a physical or learning disability, mental health condition, long-term illness or who are affected by drugs or alcohol.
They carry out tasks such as monitoring medication, helping with day to day activities and household chores.
Donation helps Emmbrook pupils become carers
Pupils thanked a Rotary Club that helped send them on a trip to become carers for a week.
By Jon Nurse
June 29, 2012
Past Rotary chairman Mike Beswetherick, pupils Barney Smith, 17, Hannah Jennings, 18, Leo Whyte, 17, Jodie Mitchell, 17, Chris Rowland, 16, Georgina Hubbarde, 17, Rotary chairman Miles Halliwell, and teacher Sam Martin.
Pupils thanked a Rotary Club that helped send them on a trip to become carers for a week.
Six sixth formers from The Emmbrook School were sent to an outdoor centre in Wales where they acted as full-time carers for pupils from Addington School, which caters for children with learning needs.
They joined pupils from Charters School in Ascot and Maiden Erlegh School in Reading at the centre in Tirabad, Wales, which is owned by the three schools.
Been a carer since she was ten years old
It can be difficult and frustrating that carers’ work goes unnoticed
Since she was just ten years old, much of her life has been taken up with caring for her disabled mother, but Tasha Turnbull says she wouldn’t have it any other way.
The 17-year-old student admits that now, as she gets older and her caring responsibilities infringe on her social life – and potentially on her opportunity to go to university – she can sometimes feel frustrated about being tied down to caring for her mum Cheryl.
But she adds that she “wouldn’t want a complete stranger caring for her” in her place.
“At the end of the day, she’s my mum, and it’s important that she feels happy with who is looking after her,” the Hartcliffe teenager says.
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