Analysis has found that 91 per cent of children aged between four and 10 years old, and 87 per cent of young people aged 11 to 18 years old in kinship care arrangements have contact with a parent and felt this was “just right”.
In comparison only 71 per cent of children and 64 per cent of young people in unrelated foster care have such contact.
The survey found that more than a third of young people in kinship care arrangements had lived in two to four placements previously and one in 10 had five or more placements before moving in with their kinship carer.
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