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We’re delighted that Grandparents Plus has been selected to take part in the Connected Communities Innovation Fund to continue our work supporting and empowering kinship carers.Read more
Grandparents Plus welcomes the report published today by the Local Government Ombudsman.Read more
A new survey of over 500 kinship carers – grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members and friends who’ve taken on care of children who aren’t able to live with their parents – has revealed that as many as 94% say caring has caused financial hardship, despite many stepping in to keep children out of the local authority care system.Read more
We're excited to be launching our new support service for kinship carers, Kinship Connected, in a quarter of London boroughs.Read more
Our monthly update with interviews from two award nominated kinship carers, and how to book your place at our Masterclasses.Read more
Our advice line for kinship carers is celebrating a milestone this week, having now helped over 7,500 families.Read more
We’re delighted to announce our new kinship care support service for local authorities is now available to be commissioned.Read more
Grandparents Plus welcomes the focus on achieving permanent homes for children who can’t live with their parents represented throughout the Foster Care in England review.Read more
We welcomed over 100 kinship carers, professionals, academics and charity representatives to our national kinship care conference last week.Read more
Grandparents Plus and Family Lives are pleased to present our Reimagining Kinship Care Conference which will address the urgent need to focus attention on kinship care.Read more
We need your votes to help us win £25,000 towards helping kinship carers in the North East.Read more
We've teamed up with the Ramblers to offer a series of intergenerational walking routes this Grandparents Day.Read more
We've launched a new campaign with Family Lives to raise awareness of the 200,000 children in kinship care.Read more
We're calling for more support for grandparents, as our new poll shows that 93% of families receive some kind of help with childcare.Read more
The Relative Experience Programme launches in North London, thanks to National Lottery funding through the Big Lottery Fund.Read more
Shadow minister for children and families Emma Lewell-Buck MP paid a visit to one of the country’s most underrepresented carer groups at a meeting in her constituency.Read more
Support groups in the North East have helped the Relative Experience Programme reach a new milestone – supporting its 500th carer.Read more
National charity Grandparents Plus has been awarded £250,000 by players of People’s Postcode Lottery to support some of the country’s most vulnerable families.Read more
The largest ever survey of kinship (family and friend) carers in England and Wales has revealed that a ‘legal lottery’ still determines the support available to children unable to live with their parents.Read more
Grandparents Plus welcomes the news that kinship carers Paul and Sue Rutherford have won their appeal over the bedroom tax."We are delighted to hear that grandparent carers Paul and Sue Rutherford have won their case in the Supreme Court".Read more
A groundbreaking project supporting grandparents and other family members who are raising a relative’s child (as ‘kinship carers’) across the North East of England was celebrated at an event in Newcastle yesterday, ahead of a new bid to expand the project across the country.Read more
Grandparents Plus welcomes proposals in the Children and Social Work Bill to improve support for looked after children and calls for support to be extended to children growing up in kinship care.Read more
‘Let’s not forget the hidden army of kinship carers’ Grandparents Plus comments on new figures released by Age UK.Read more