This year, Kinship has worked with the sector to coordinate Kinship Care Week, conceived by Kinship Carers Liverpool in 2018. While we recognise the invaluable difference kinship carers make to so many young lives, we must also acknowledge the huge challenges they face and the human cost of raising their loved ones with very little support.
We know many kinship carers are forced to give up their jobs, sell their homes and use their life savings and pension pots to give children a better future, and prevent them entering an over-stretched care system.
We owe kinship carers, those close relatives and family friends who step up to care for a child when their parents can’t look after them, a huge debt of gratitude for the incredible difference they make to children’s lives and our society.
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