CYP Now - Care Review response: What the government needs to do now for kinship families

Today, the government has published its long-awaited children’s social care implementation plan, responding to the recommendations made by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care last year.

'Kinship families have struggled without recognition for too long', Kay says. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

It rightly celebrates kinship care, highlighting how it helps children maintain connections with the people they love, delivers good outcomes, and makes economic sense too. Finally we’re seeing some meaningful, tangible commitments from government to provide the kind of support which has long been missing for kinship families across the country, and which charities like Kinship have been campaigning for decades.

But there is a lot more still to be done before kinship carers get the help they need to successfully raise the children in their care without the stress of inadequate financial, emotional or practical support.

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