28/01/2016 Newsround


28/01/2016

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Good morning, I'm Jenny, live with all the news

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Coming up - we'll be speaking to one young carer about her life.

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And the paraglider soaring beneath Norway's Northern Lights.

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Did you know that around the country right now,

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there are thousands of children like you caring

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They are called young carers and take on a lot of the jobs around

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They do this because their mum or dad is not well enough to do

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the jobs themselves - sometimes because they have problems

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Charlotte is a young carer who looks after her mum.

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One of the first elements I remember about caring for my mum

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was that she never really used to be able to do things that other

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Every so often, things would get way too much for her and she would just

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have to go and lie down or withdraw herself from situations.

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And, as a kid, that would make me feel really bad.

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So, I would try and make her feel happy or I would try and do things

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I would see other mums lifting up their kids and going running

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with them and stuff and I would be like,

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"Well, why can't mum do that for me?"

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It was an absence of this kind of fun loving mum that I used

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I don't blame her for that but I knew something wasn't right.

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A certain teacher that really helped me realise that

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something really was wrong, she was one of the first

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people I ever told. And I got the support I needed.

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I just broke down in tears. I wasn't sad...

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It was just kind of the realisation that that was what's wrong.

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And at that point there was just kind of an,

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"Oh, my God! THAT'S what's wrong!" And she nodded at me.

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And she said, "You know what? That's OK and we're going

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It sounds really cliched but at that moment, I really didn't feel

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like I was completely alone any more.

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There is a lot of experiences to be had and some of them are going to be

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That's OK because being a young carer most definitely

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Because I wouldn't be half as resilient if I hadn't

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I know how to deal with the disappointments

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and the anxieties because I've seen my mum got through it for one,

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and I've had to go through it with her.

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She's joined by Michelle Smith, from the Carers Trust Fylde Coast,

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Thanks for sharing your story with us.

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Fill the topic there is a ignorance around and it needs to be, a lot of

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people don't understand. This is something that should be shared

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because it happens in everyday life and it goes on behind closed to

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this, whether you know it or not and people need to be educated about it

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because it is going on around you. Have you had any problems

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in the past by being a young carer? I have had bullying, people that

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turn ignorance into, based don't how to react and they are just plain

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mean and just take it out on me, like misdirected anger and it is

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horrible. A lot of children have to deal with what Charlotte has been

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through. That's right. Young people are carrying out additional tasks

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every day and often they are missing out on an awful lot of things that

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other children are doing. What sort of problems today face? The Carers

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Trust did research and the found out that one third of all carers are

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caring for a parent with mental health problems. Typically, some of

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our young carers will say that money is very sad or does not want to go

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out the house and that impact on young people, spending a lot of time

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worrying and potentially affecting their mental health.

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What would you say to people watching right now

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who are going through what you went through?

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I can only say there is only good from telling people. I found it hard

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to trust people after I first told people but opening up to people is

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one of the best things you can do. It is hard and a big wall to break

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down but once you have done it, there are online forums and safe

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communities where you can share your thoughts and feelings and it is OK.

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communities where you can share your What support is out there for young

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carers? Carers What support is out there for young

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of 87 independent partners who can provide emotional support and

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practical support. Thank you for coming in and talking to us. It will

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make a difference. More child refugees

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from the Middle Eastern country of Syria will be allowed

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to come to the UK. The Government has said it will be

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offering extra help to children who have lost their families,

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and are living in Syria They will work with the United

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Nations to decide It's not clear yet how many children

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will be coming to the UK. One of the world's top para gliders,

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Horacio Llorens, completed the trip The Spanish air acrobat

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flew his glider under He had to overcome snow storms,

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low visibility, and the wires of his glider freezing,

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in sub-zero temperatures. That's all from me. Newsround's back

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right here at 4:20pm.

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