If you’re a kinship carer and are interested in volunteering, join our Someone Like Me peer support programme and support other kinship carers.
Many kinship carers, some with underlying health issues that made them vulnerable, are concerned that their children might be exposed to the virus on returning to school.
This funding will help us extend our advice and support to kinship carers in Wales.
We have appointed a new development manager for Wales who will collaborate with kinship carers and local authorities.
We are delighted to announce we will be partnering with 69 local authorities and 12 regional adoption agencies across England.
A film, capturing the troubling experiences of special guardians and the rewards and challenges of bringing up relatives’ children.
Professor Beth Neil, Centre for Research on Children and Families at the University of East Anglia discusses her Contact in Lockdown research.
We’re delighted to announce that Grandparents Plus has been awarded a generous grant from the Permira Foundation.
“Desperate for things to return to normal, but petrified at the same time."
Grandparents Plus is joining 152 organisations to ask the Government to ensure that children are at the heart of COVID-19 recovery planning.
Isabel has described herself as a “Glamour Nan”, and we’d definitely agree! She is a mother and grandmother, with a huge heart and a great sense of humour.
Grandparents Plus agrees that special guardianship order assessments should improve.
Read about Emily's journey from retired grandparent to full-time kinship carer.
Kinship carer Roz Ottery from Calderdale has written this wonderful poem of strength for all kinship carers.
Grandparents Plus is delighted to be one of the coalition of charities chosen by the Department for Education to receive funding to help vulnerable children most impacted by the coronavirus...
In 2019 I was made redundant, which was my opportunity to get involved; to use my time and skills to help make a difference to my community.
During Volunteers' Week, we wanted to share Jane's story of how she set up a successful group in Middlesbrough.
Only another kinship carer can have any idea about the range of emotions that we are all experiencing now.
Concerns of exhaustion, children's mental health and the lack of tools to home-school.
This week we’ve been going through the results of our latest coronavirus impact survey.
A series of poems by Penny Shutt, a kinship carer, who explores how it feels to come to terms with bringing up her brother’s child.
Faith, aged 8, reads to other young kinship care children during lockdown.
The thought of a child or children coming home after contact with hundreds of others every day is terrifying.
David and Christine not only lost their beloved daughter, but they were newly caring for their four bereaved grandchildren.
