Grandparents are kinship carers at risk to their health and well-being
Grandparents providing kinship care do so at “considerable cost”to their health and relationships, according to a study published today.Just over half (55%) of those providing full-time kinshipcare...
View ArticleKinship care bill continues to get attention
Kerry McCarthy MP is keeping the issue of kinship care in the spotlight. Yesterday at a House of Commons debate, McCarthy asked that leave be given to bring in a bill to require the Secretary of State...
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Is foster care really better than sending children up North?
Well that seems to have been the judgement of social workers in Hampshire who chose to put two children into local foster care rather than send them to Yorkshire to live with their aunt. The reason...
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Kinship carers need respect, not threats and pressure
Raising children is the easy part of being a kinship carer – it’s the bureaucracy and prejudice that’s hard, writes Julie Wilkes, a kin carer for the last six years. Recently I got the chance to speak...
View ArticleShould social workers be sent abroad to investigate kinship placements?
In a blog last week I posed two questions to social workers, following comments from Dr Richard Hoskins and adoption tsar Martin Narey. Of course, you’ve all been eagerly awaiting the results so here...
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Social care diary: ‘The grandmother breaks down in tears at the news’
My job supporting kinship carers brings me face-to-face with the elation and heartbreak that decisions by social services departments can bring, writes Jacqueline Williamson… Monday I visit a...
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