How will being a kinship carer affect family relationships?

You should think about how your new role will affect your own and the child’s relationship with their parents, as well as with other family members. How will your own children feel about someone else joining the household? How will the child react to their grandparents taking on a parental role?

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Your ideas – what we’re doing as a result

At the end of 2019 we asked if you had any ideas – big and small - for additional things that we can do in the future. Lots of you responded and we’ve been looking into what we can do.
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Kinship carer, Shelly James, has been awarded an MBE for her work supporting and connecting kinship carers

Kinship carer, Shelly James, who lives in Northampton has been awarded an MBE for her incredible work in founding a community of over 850 kinship carers.
More than 15 MPs have already committed to supporting kinship families in parliament

Following some fantastic campaigning by kinship carers in 2019, we start 2020 with more than 15 MPs already committed to supporting kinship families in parliament.

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Our Advice Service helps kinship carers in crisis to make difficult decisions that will affect them, and the children in their care for the rest of their lives. Our team of three experienced, advisers help 2,000 kinship carers a year with their questions on benefits, employment, housing, education, grant applications - and often a shoulder to cry on too. The demand is rapidly increasing and we want to be able to answer more calls, more quickly. Your donation will help us do this Read more

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