Young Carers.

Hello everybody. I want to apologies for being missing for a couple of months I have been busy with family and school. I am working towards my GCSE's at the moment.

There is a matter that is close to my own heart at the moment, I'd like to talk about. We currently do not have a local Young Carers support worker at the moment.  She has left to pursue a career in a different role. This was really hard for her, but there is not enough money for her to work full time and support us young carers.  The company that runs our young carers has not yet organised a replacement.   This has left me feeling quite vulnerable. Mum has been having some issues adjusting to the boots. She frequently falls over when she tries to pick something up. Whilst this actually looks quite amusing, I sometimes laugh. This is to cover up it really does worry me. I am worried about the fact she might really damage herself and not get back up. She already dislocates her knee cap on a regular basis. Just sometimes I wish I could just escape from the worry of it all. I used to be able to do this on the young carers trips. It was time to do things where I wasn't worrying about whether Mum was being left out, because the place we wanted to go to wasn't fully wheelchair accessible , or even accessible at all. It was also someone we could talk to that understood. Whilst we have someone in school, I don't always want to talk to them, because they don't know Mum and cannot totally understand the situation. Like her being a stubborn moo. She does not always want help. 


We have not heard when there will be a replacement, we've had no communication from them. It feels they have left us alone. 

Has anyone else in other areas experienced similar problems?