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Staff were able to pick up\/drop off supplies at a safe distance.<\/p>\n<p>Assisting with cleaning supplies for their home\/hand sanitisers if needing to go out.<\/p>\n<p>Purchasing mobile phone top ups. Many of the young people\/families have \u2018pay as you go\u2019 mobiles but were unable to purchase top ups. Staff were able to purchase top ups for them either via on-line facility or dropping off to the homes for them. Lockdown has highlighted digital poverty for some of the families, so this lifeline was essential for contact with family\/friends and school links.<\/p>\n<p>Providing and sending packs to young people\/families including resources to aid schooling and activities for carers\u2019 breaks that will help with their wellbeing (arts materials, books etc).<\/p>\n<p>Members of SI Heswall have made donations to support the young carers with Asda vouchers which were presented to Paula Hume recently by President Ann McKillop.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Throughout the Coronavirus lockdown the team at Action with Young Carers Wirral has\u00a0been able to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":4702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Supporting Wirral young carers | News | Blog | Events | SI Heswall and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Heswall and District : Blog &amp; News : Supporting Wirral young carers : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Heswall and District . 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