Young Carers, Lisa and Neil Calvert with Poppie-May Simpkins (5) and Callum Britton (9)

“I’M really proud of him. He does a really good job and I don’t know how I’d manage if he wasn’t helping me.”

Lisa Calvert, 38, from Wisbech Road, South Lynn, is cared for by her son, Callum Britton, aged nine. Mrs Calvert suffers with type-2 diabetes, ankylosing spondylitis – a form of inflammatory arthritis in the spine – and depression.

She was also diagnosed with conversion disorder in 2005, a condition in which people experience neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis or fits without a neurological cause.