The Young Kinship Champions group, set up by charity Kinship and funded by BBC Children in Need, will see 30 young people aged 14 to 17 create and deliver campaigns to raise kinship care awareness and accelerate policy, practice and legislative change.
The group will ask MPs, local authority councillors and leaders in social care, education, health and family justice to meet with them, bringing young peoples’ lived experience and voice to the design of kinship care support.
The young people are based in six north London boroughs - Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Islington - and will be supported by a youth worker who will work alongside the charity’s team of Kinship Connected project workers who deliver on-the-ground support for kinship carers in the area.
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