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• The Numbers Game and Kinship Caring | 24/05/12

  Yesterday a new report was published on the nature and extent of kinship caring in the US, entitled ‘Stepping Up for Kids – What Governments and Communities Should do to Support Kinship Families’.   The report provides a unique insight into the number of children being raised by family and friends and some of the challenges [...]

• Adoption, Fostering and Kinship Care | 22/05/12

  I haven’t blogged for while because I (like others) have become overwhelmed with everything that is happening on a policy front in relation to children in care.  But I have made a point of keeping on top of everything, and over the last few weeks I have become intrigued by the exchange of views between [...]

• Keeping Siblings Together | 30/10/11

  Not long ago I came across a case involving a sibling group of 6 which until recently kept me awake at night. A few months ago I dealt with a case involving 6 children.  The children were aged 10 days to 12 years old.  All six children had been taken into care and split between [...]

• Because Children Matter | 30/10/11

  I recently received a Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to travel to Australia to research homelessness and kinship care services.  During my 4 weeks in Sydney Australia I met with some extraordinary people and organisations.  I met with academics, housing practitioners, social service professionals and kinship care families.  I spent a day at Uniting Care [...]

• Narey, Adoption & Good Old Common Sense! | 14/07/11

  After reading an article in Community Care today I was surprised to see a new found optimism on the part of Martin Narey for kinship care, alongside an element of frustration at the Court system for involving family and friends when a child is about to be adopted, when ‘at a glance (family and friends) are completely [...]

• The Narey Report on Adoption | 11/07/11

  Over the last few days I have read with interest many of the debates and controversies surrounding the ‘The Narey Report: A Blueprint for the Nations Lost Children’ published in The Times on the 5th July 2011. Given my own experience of growing up in care I have to say I welcome Martin Narey’s passion [...]

• Are Children in Kinship Care ‘in care’? | 02/07/11

  I work with kinship care families on a daily basis – mostly grandparents and aunts who are looking after children who cannot live with their own parents.  They are a remarkable bunch of carers, and I feel so inspired by what they do each and every day to keep their relative’s children out of care. So when [...]

• Kinship Care Matters | 13/06/11

  There are an estimated 200,000 children being raised by grandparents and other family relatives (kinship carers) in the UK. Many of these kinship carers struggle with significant extra cost, disruption to their own family life, and experience a deep sense of grief and sadness at the situation they have been placed in, through no fault [...]

• Kinship Carers (Parental Responsibility Agreements) Bill | 09/06/11

  I am absolutely delighted to see kinship care receiving the attention it deserves following the introduction of the ‘Kinship Carers (Parental Responsibility Agreements) Bill put forward by Labour MP, Kerry McCarthy in the House of Commons a few days ago. There are an estimated 200,000 children being raised by grandparents and other relative carers in the UK, and [...]

• ‘Poor Kids’ | 08/06/11

  Anyone watching ‘Poor Kids’ on  BBC 1 would have got their eyes open to what it is like for a child to grow up below the poverty line in Britain today.   The Programme followed the journeys of 4 small children living in poverty, and showed how families on benefit struggle to meet the most basic needs of their children. My [...]