 I care for a brother Jacob and he's got medication but he gets it changed so regularly that I don't know what's going on and it'd be nice to know what's happening and why it's getting changed so I could understand more about what's happening. When you're giving so much medication for the person you're looking after and you're not exactly sure what to do with it at first until you're shown by other people or how many to give, what days to give, what times. Just easier prescription information that's given on the prescription saying when to do it. It should be child friendly because I don't understand half the ways it's on my brother's tablets and things like that so I'd kind of want it to be clearer and there should be someone like the doctors that should be able to explain it to you better so you can kind of understand without just reading something and being like what does that mean you know. Also if we need to go pick up prescriptions at the pharmacies they won't let us do that if we're under 16. Instead of him having to drive up down there I could down and just walk because we've got local doctors in the village it'd be much easier if I could walk just get a prescription. Part of my mum first got diagnosed with a condition. I wasn't allowed in to appointments or had to stay outside or I'd come up and see my mum when she was in hospital. It was only for about 10 minutes or something and I had to be shooed out so I couldn't see them you know checking out my mum. That bugged me because even to this day I still don't fully know what's wrong with my mum because the doctors and my mum will consider it a bit funny with me that I might not be able to take it. I don't think like doctors and nurses and people like that. I don't really ever see them like because I'm always in school and if I'm with the doctor they don't really say much to me when I was my mum. District nurses because I live in such a rural place like I live in the middle of nowhere they most of the time refuse to come and see my mum because we live so rural and even if she's like really ill they won't come and see her. My mum's got an ileostomy bag and she always runs out to them towards the end of the month and they don't like send her any more. Then she can't eat food because then the bugs would leak for the night and then they like stops her getting sleep and then it makes it ill because that would lower her immune system and she gets like ill again. They're trying to educate us more about health so if there ever was like a problem in a house like the person would be careful or sick and there's no one else about. They're trying to teach us first aid so we might be able to like stop or help and try and prevent something before it starts. What would be nice is to get out to do one of my favourite sports swimming because it keeps my health right. It gives me a bit of stress free time. I'm still having counselling with the doctors to sort my anger out because sometimes I can't control what I'm that bad. I just can't control what. I have to obviously go for my prescriptions as well and it does get horrible but at the times I feel really happy about being able to help my dad because it basically doesn't make me feel useless and makes me feel good about myself. I don't think it's changing for the better if anything. We're being ignored and there should be a lot more medical support on hand. The teachers don't see that I sometimes miss a lesson or something to go sit in the in carers office to talk rather than in a lesson because I'm stressed or I need someone to talk to. They don't see from my point of view why I'm there and teachers don't tend to understand. I think more teachers need to be aware that I'm a young carer because say if I haven't done my homework or say for whatever reason at home then they wouldn't know that it's because of him. They just thought maybe I'd be lazy or something like that. I care for my mum and my sister. It is quite stressful at times because I've got my own work to do, my school work GCSE is coming up now. So looking after my mum is quite hard at the moment. I can't focus a lot at home. I find it really stressful all the time. So I like getting out to do things every now and then when I can. Young carers is great. The teachers do not understand where the in carers come from, why they trwant. But in actual fact they're actually trying to do things for their family and fit it all into the schedule with their education as well. Obviously I sit there worrying and worrying about my dad. I can't concentrate my work. It's like times when I've got a ring in and I'm like I can't come in because I've got to look after my dad. I do worry a bit if I don't hear from her during the day or if I can text her and she doesn't text back. There's only two people I think in the whole school that knows that I'm a young carer and that's the two of the three deputies. I don't think any of the teachers know and what I think could be an improvement is either they tell them or we have like a little ID card just to in general just to like show somebody that says we're a young carer. For people to understand what more I do for my mum. Like say if you didn't do your homework on time because you're caring for whoever. That's also an issue because I get the tension a lot for not doing my homework because of looking after my mum. We have a social worker called Mrs Clare Owen and she's got a list of all the young carers and a couple of my teachers know because if you have homework and you're late or if you're late for a lesson they know why you might be late. You have a reason like they wouldn't ask you in front of the class to like embarrass you in front of everybody. They're just like take it to one sign and they go is it cos you've been caring for your mum or whoever you've been caring for. You just say yes and you go and sit down. I have to have a note and I would like to be able to just go in and say I've had to do this and this and that and they would understand that. I think there should be someone from a young carers project in all schools everywhere as much as possible. I'm in college now but when I was in school they had support there and people could talk to you both because have someone in college to talk to about it and like support you through it. They do quite a lot really. Wich Silwyn comes in every couple of weeks to see how we're doing. Has like a little session. They tried to do that, take us out of like lessons which aren't core subjects so they'd never take us out of like an English, Welsh, Signs or English lesson so they wouldn't want to like effect that education as well so nothing more they could do really. We're not like letting people know that we are young carers so they try and keep like it private and help you at the same time. I think we should have a card of young carers to help us more with activities and other things we could do outside of school. There should be like a bus pass for young carers so they can get to school if they need to, if they're late or something or they need to get back from school or they need to go shopping or something. I used to get really badly bullied and people take the make out of the fact that I have to look after my dad and do the shopping and stuff and a few times I've been jumped down and I had the shopping and the money taken off me and then all I've gone home with was like a nosebleed and black eyes and stuff like that. I would like people to like not take a mickey out of us for going to young carers and I would like them to like understand what a young carer is. To begin with I planned on staying at home and then just travelling to Wrexham University but it really upset my mum and the idea that she was holding me back from going away and living the uni life. So after some poking and prodding to go and going but it's going to be difficult because more social workers are going to have to come in and help my mum. I don't know, I feel sort of guilty believing a bit but I'll only make her feel bad if I don't go. I want to go to university but my stepdad looks after when I'm in school so I think you should be okay hopefully. Obviously I'll come and see her I've got weekends or whenever I can come back and see her but yeah I guess I do worry when I leave what if he's going to be okay. I can't go off to uni or anywhere like that because I won't be around much to help out my family so it'll be a bit difficult. Yeah, you know, way things have improved by having access to the young carers project in school once a week but other than that I don't think teachers are aware of people's situation at home because none of them know that I'm a young carer none of them ask me how things are or speak to me about them. When social services were involved in me they were there for me and my siblings but they tend to care more about the siblings and what my mum and my stepdad were involved in rather than me and myself. I was pushed aside. I think it is important to have people there for you for the support and everything but some people who don't they get into other things and it's just easier to have people there to talk to and it's nicer, you can get through it a lot easier. It gives you an hour or a couple of hours away from what goes on in your house and it lets you know you're not the only one in the world that has to deal with these problems with other people you can't talk to and that is help available to help if you need it. I think that's improved in a way that we can now get support from social workers meaning that we can sit down as a family discuss problems, address solutions, things like that because a few years ago when I was younger there was no social workers to do that we had no awareness of it but now there's a little more awareness and there's a little more help there. This young girls project has helped me make new friends, be more social build up confidence to talk to my talk to friends and the staff about problems and they helped me out a lot with problems and I think they're all great I'm glad to meet them I think just meeting new friends was good just the friends that have the same problems at home they understand my normal friends don't understand what sort of pressure you go through being a young carer. Don't just shove young carers to the side it's clean, don't put them into the dark bring them into the light.