Kinship care charity Grandparents Plus said its annual survey found that family and friends currently raising around 200,000 children because their parents cannot look after them are being left without the support and advice they need, with the situation compounded by the Covid-19 crisis.
The survey found that the vast majority of kinship carers (82 per cent) feel they lack the support and information they need from local authorities to raise children who have often suffered trauma or have additional needs.
In addition, the survey also revealed that 70 per cent of respondents found parenting as a kinship carer during the Covid-19 pandemic difficult or very difficult, with half saying their children had also struggled.
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