Help us, please - we’re invisible young carers - The Sunday Times 25th November 2007

Monday, November 26, 2007

SEVEN months ago Lauren Malins was a young girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her mother Nikki, a former gymnastics coach, was confined to a wheelchair after a bout of viral meningitis and needed round-the-clock care: though there were some part-time helpers, Lauren took the lion’s share. In a touching Life in the Day article in The Sunday Times magazine, Lauren, from Margate, Kent, described her daily routine, from making coffee and taking her mother her tablets, helping her dress and wash, to making her own breakfast and her mother’s lunch before she set off for school.

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