Young carer Aimee Hadwin has spent lockdown looking after her disabled mum in Liverpool and shielding to protect her. “My main worry has been getting prescriptions for the right time and getting food deliveries,” says 18-year-old Aimee, who is in the first year of her A-levels.
Kira Charlton, 23, a young mum and law student from Epsom, Surrey, has had to get up at dawn to study law before her baby son wakes up. “Lockdown has been really hard,” she says. “I wake up at 5am and get two hours of studying done before he wakes at 7am and then I’ll go back to it when he is having his lunch.” After studying hard for A-levels, Joao Costa, 18, from Tonbridge, Kent, found himself lost, and struggling with his mental health. “As a young person it