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Carers week is 11-17 June.
Carers often don’t considered themselves ‘carers’. They’re getting on with looking after someone they love and care for, rather than doing it because of a special label. More needs to be done to make their lives easier. There are some networks looking out for those that do the looking after. We’ve worked with groups of young carers who are looking after family members whilst also getting themselves through school.
Sarah Jane Wood is 17 and looks after a Mum with cerebral palsy and a Dad with Crohn’s disease who’s had kidney and heart failure. She’s been a carer since she could walk.
‘Young carers should be paid, but we aren’t. We save the government loads of money because of that. Adult carers can get money, even if they work full-time. It doesn’t weigh up.’
‘I’ve done my back in, helping Mum up. Last year I strained my spine and had to stand totally upright for weeks. I’ve not been shown how to pick her up properly, I missed the course because I was doing my GSCEs. I’ve not been given training in anything.’
Full interview at: This Much I Know – The Observer
More about carers week here
The red house at Great George Street, Liverpool celebrating regeneration and revival (and costing £170,000 allegedly). Each door has been salvaged from local housing stock that has been renewed.
You can run, but you can’t hide. It’s everywhere, again. Maybe Big Brother could be an alternative summer Lent – not just in avoiding it but doing something positive instead. Lizzie has a list of friendly actions to subvert the BB effect and Ship of Fools 40 ideas for Lent can be adapted to counter the wilderness experience of kamikaze television.
Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Endemol, the company which generously gifts us Big Brother, is the great, great grandson of the Victorian engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette who designed the London sewer system. One Bazalgette pumped crap out of our homes, whilst the other pumps it back in.
