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The leading kinship care charity in England and Wales. Together, let’s commit to change for kinship families. Media - [email protected]
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We're so grateful for all of the support HRH The Princess of Wales has shown Kinship and kinship families as part of her commitment to early childhood. We wish her all the best with her recovery.
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👸 We’re thrilled to share with you that today The Princess of Wales made a special visit to a Kinship peer support group in London. She met with #KinshipCarer grandparents, aunts and uncles and some of the young children they are raising. @KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood
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👸We are thrilled that #ThePrincessofWales' visit today to a Kinship peer support group in London has been featured @MailOnline. 💛 Playing with the children, she discussed the important role #KinshipCarers play & the support the peer groups provide. 👇
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🥳Fantastic to have such amazing support for #KinshipCare from The Princess of Wales @KensingtonRoyal. We are so grateful to her for visiting a Kinship peer support group where she heard from #KinshipCarers about the importance of emotional and practical support.
The brilliant @kinshipcharity helps families across the UK where grandparents, relatives or friends raise someone else's child. Spending quality time with these families today has been wonderful.
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👸 During her visit today Her Royal Highness heard from several #KinshipCarers about their day-to-day experiences raising their children and the joy and challenges this brings. #RoyalFamily.#PrincessofWales.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood. Photo Credit: Kensington Palace
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📰 Read about 'the light the Princess of Wales is shining on an invisible army’ as well as the isolation #KinshipCarers face without peer support. #ThePrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.#ProfessorGreen.@EarlyChildhood.@KensingtonRoyal.@ProfessorGreen.
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📺 Following the visit from The Princess of Wales to a Kinship peer support group, make sure to watch #KinshipCare champion and musician @professorgreen on @GMB tomorrow at 8:20am. #PrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood
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👏 We want to shine a spotlight and give an enormous thanks to the incredible #KinshipCarers who met The Princess of Wales, Professor Green and Nanny Pat at our peer support group!. #ThePrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.#ProfessorGreen.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood.@ProfessorGreen
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📺 Watch this lovely video of the Princess of Wales chatting with #KinshipCarers and playing with some of the children they are raising on @skynews. #ThePrincessofWales.#ProfessorGreen.#RoyalFamily.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood.@ProfessorGreen.
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It’s been one year since the launch of the '#ShapingUs' campaign, spearheaded by the Princess of Wales, which has highlighted the enormous difference well-supported #KinshipCare can make to children’s lives. ✨. @kensingtonroyal.@earlychildhood.Read more: //loom.ly/PU6HRdA
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We're thrilled to support @EarlyChildhood as its Business Taskforce for Early Childhood publishes its report setting out the business case for prioritising early childhood today. #CaseForEarlyChildhood.
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💛 Joy, a grandmother #KinshipCarer from London, spoke about her hopes for #KinshipCare after The Princess of Wales' visit to our peer support group. #ThePrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.#ProfessorGreen.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood.@ProfessorGreen
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A touching and powerful moment in Parliament yesterday hearing newly-elected MP for Carshalton and Wallington @Bobby_Dean talk about spending time in #KinshipCare as a young teenager and paying tribute to his grandparents during his maiden speech. #ValueOurLove 💛
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📺 Did you catch #KinshipCare champion and musician @professorgreen who was raised by hid grandmother Nanny Pat on on @GMB this morning?. ✅ Watch the full clips on Twitter: #PrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.#ProfessorGreen.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood
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💛 This week is #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, organised by @place2be and supported by their Royal Patron The Princess of Wales @KensingtonRoyal. #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
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📰 Catch up on other articles which featured The Princess of Wales' visit to our #KinshipCarer peer support group!. @People #ThePrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood.
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✨ We can't believe it's been just over a week since The Princess of Wales, Professor Green and Nanny Pat visited one of our peer support groups in London!. #PrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood.@ProfessorGreen
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👏 This in an incredible moment of recognition for #KinshipCarers and we are hugely grateful to Her Royal Highness for dedicating time to shining a spotlight on #KinshipFamilies.
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💛 During her visit The Princess of Wales learned about the importance of emotional and practical support for #KinshipCarers, as well as the sense of belonging and community peer support groups provide. #PrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.
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We're pleased to welcome @Tesco announcement that they will be providing paid #KinshipCareLeave on a par with adoption leave for all #SpecialGuardians in their workforce. We hope that over time, the policy will be extended to all #KinshipCarers.
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💪 For too long, #KinshipCarers have felt invisible but today’s visit shows that #KinshipCare is becoming more widely understood and #KinshipCarers are finally receiving recognition for the huge sacrifices they make to care for the children they love.
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📰 Professor Green: “The amazing thing about charities like Kinship is that it’s focusing on early intervention, there’s things as a child I would’ve better coped with.”.@theindepedent #ThePrincessofWales.#ProfessorGreen.@KensingtonRoyal.@ProfessorGreen.
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We're proud to introduce Sir James Munby as our new Patron. A powerful advocate for kinship carers, he says: "too often, support is inadequate. I'm delighted to be able to help and to add my voice to the growing call for more support for kinship families”
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💛 #KinshipCareWeek (2-8 October) has landed! The public and political profile of #KinshipCare has never been higher – but we need to push it even further up the agenda. 👇 Below you can find three #DoOneThing actions you can take this week. #KinshipCareWeek.#DoOneThing
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141,000 children across England and Wales are being raised in #KinshipCare by grandparents, aunts, uncles, other relatives and family friends. ✨. Let's celebrate all #KinshipCarers raising children in stable and loving homes this #MothersDay. 💛
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Kinship Care Week (7-13 October) has officially landed and so has our new #ThisIsKinshipCare animation. 💛🎥. Please hit the share button for this poignant animation to ensure it travels far and wide this #KinshipCareWeek. 🌎. #KinshipCareWeek.#ThisIsKinshipCare
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✨ Share this momentous moment for #KinshipCare with your family and friends!.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood.
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Our new name, Kinship, will help us put kinship care centre-stage and tackle the invisibility and confusion kinship carers so often experience.
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Grandparents Plus has changed it's name to Kinship. We won’t rest until every kinship carer is recognised, valued and supported. Read more about what we aim to achieve for kinship families as Kinship.
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💛 Raised by his grandmother Nanny Pat, we are so grateful to Professor Green for shining another huge spotlight on #KinshipFamilies and the support they need.
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As we come to the end of 2023, we would like to reflect on some special moments Kinship has had with #KinshipCarers this year. ✨. In 2024 we look forward to supporting many more #KinshipFamilies and campaigning together for change. 💛
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OBE for Kinship Carer Janet! 🎖️. We're delighted for kinship carer, and Kinship Trustee Janet Kay who has been awarded an OBE in the King's New Year Honours. #NewYearHonours
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Congratulations new grandma @AngelaRayner & family🎉Here are more grandparents busting myths about grandparents today
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🎉 #ValueOurLove campaign victory!🎉. 💛Today, @educationgovuk has made its first ever major commitment to improving support for #KinshipFamilies. 📄Read our easy-to-read summary of what the Government has now committed to doing for #KinshipFamilies 👉
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🎄 🎁 KinshipCarer campaigners Celica, Janice, Jackie, Kelly and Linzi outside @10DowningStreet with @munirawilson, @timloughton, @WalkerWorcester and our #ValueOurLove present for @educationgovuk and @GillianKeegan!
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✨TODAY we're excited to launch our first ever campaign- #ValueOurLove -calling on @educationgovuk to value the love of #KinshipCarers & take urgent action to improve support available for #KinshipFamilies.✏️Add your name: tell your MP to act #ValueOurLove
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✨ 160,000 children across England and Wales are being raised in #KinshipCare by grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins and family friends. 💛 Let's celebrate all the #OtherMothers this #MothersDay.
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🎉🎬🍾 Huge congratulations to #KinshipChild @BarryKeoghan for his #Oscar nomination for his role in #TheBansheesofInisherin!. 💛 "It’s all about my family. My nanny and my auntie, they have been a huge part of my life, taking me in from #FosterCare.". #ValueOurLove #Oscars2023
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@Earlychildhood Recognising the vital role businesses can play in supporting parents and caregivers to balance their responsibilities at work and at home is a key focus of the report and aligns with our work to support employers across the country to become #KinshipFriendlyEmployers.
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#KinshipCareWeek is here! Kinship carers are family & friends who step in quickly to raise children who otherwise would go into care. We're proud to support ALL kinship carers, and we're in good company w/ @FamilyRightsGp @CoramBAAF @KinshipLpool @KinshipCarersUk @AdfamUK @CFABUK.
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We're thrilled that @educationgovuk has asked Kinship to develop & deliver a transformational peer-to-peer support service for #kinshipcarers in England. Children’s Minister @willquince joined a Kinship peer support group to announce the £1m funding.🧵 .
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We are delighted to announce that Beverley Barnett-Jones MBE, from @NuffieldFJO will be joining Kinship's Board of Trustees.
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Huge thanks to almost 200 kinship carers who shared their #coronavirus worries with us to help us understand what we and others can do to help. We'll be adding new advice, stories, information and useful links to our website. We hope it helps.
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Many of you'll have seen this beautiful moment between care home resident Ken and his carer Kia. Please meet Kia's grandparents Linda and George who've raised her since she was 6. She moved into the care home to keep the residents and her very proud grandparents safe #kinshipcare.
💕 17-year-old Kia's kind gesture moved people around the world but it's the people closer to home who've told #BBCBreakfast they're most proud.More here:
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It's Grandparents Day! A special mention has to go to the grandparents who step in to give children the childhoods they deserve. #KinshipCareWeek #KinshipCareMatters
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ICYMI #kinshipcarer Maxine & our CEO @drlucypeake describe how kinship carers are often asked to step in to care for a child by social workers. With little time & insufficient info & advice, they do the right thing for children but find they have no access to support they need.
“Kinship carers are taken for granted.” . People who look after a relative's child say they need more help. Unlike unrelated foster parents, there's very little support for them. @claudializatv | @GPlusinfo
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Fantastic speech from Sir James Munby: Children in kinship care "typically have greater needs than other children: they, and their kinship carers, need more support, more services, than other children". Read the full article in @cypnow
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Please take a moment to read this beautiful piece from a kinship carer in Northumberland about how re-parenting a traumatised child is whole different ball game to raising her own children.
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Let’s celebrate the grandparents, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends who are raising 200000 children in kinship care #KinshipCareWeek
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💛 Today is #GrandparentsDay and we want to celebrate all the amazing, resilient and devoted #KinshipCarers who are caring for their #Grandchildren.
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If you haven't already seen our #KinshipCareWeek film ‘Something to be proud of’, here it is! The story of one young person's journey into #kinshipcare. @MyPocketsArts are a joy to work with! Please watch and share! And get your tissues ready.
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This #MothersDay let’s thank all the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins and family friends who are raising children as #kinshipcarers. Your love, care and support for your children, your families and each other is incredible. Thank you.
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There is a higher number of children living in kinship care than those in foster care or who have been adopted. We'll be bringing you #KinshipCareFacts throughout #KinshipCareWeek
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@KensingtonRoyal @Earlychildhood We look forward to continuing to work together with Her Royal Highness to call attention to the support #KinshipCarers need and deserve! 💪. Learn more about Kinship's support groups:
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🔦 #OutoftheShadows: A vision for #KinshipCare in England. ❗✨ Today we set out our vision for a radically reformed #KinshipCareSystem in England. 💻 Read about the changes we want to see the @reviewCSC advocate for to reform #KinshipCare. 🧵 1/9
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@KensingtonRoyal @Earlychildhood Last year, as part of the #ShapingUs campaign, Her Royal Highness visited a group of #KinshipCarers at one of our London support groups.
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A lovely piece on the 'vital role of a kinship carer' by @GlindonMary in @thenewsguardian. She discusses Grandparents Plus support groups, the pressures faced by some of these carers, and how we can better support kinship care. #KinshipCareMatters
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Congrats to our team member and #KinshipCarer @minimaxcamp for getting a garden makeover from the @LoveYourGarden2 crew!🌱Maxine is a big advocate for the rights of kinship carers & used her time in the programme to talk about her experience as a special guardian.
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This Mother’s Day let’s thank all the grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins & other #kinshipcarers for all they do 💐
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Thanks to @munirawilson for introducing a Kinship Care Bill to Parliament today, making the case for financial allowances and employment leave for #KinshipCarers and improved educational support for children in #KinshipCare. Our recap of Munira's speech below…🧵.
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Kinship carers feel invisible in debate about looked-after children. Kinship care must be included in review of care system promised by @educationgovuk @michelledonelan. Excellent letters from kinship carer Janet Kay and our CEO @drlucypeake
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❤️ This #MothersDay let's celebrate the grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins and family friends who take on the role of ‘mum’ in a child’s life when their parents can’t look after them. #KinshipCarers #KinshipFamilies
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Excellent @guardian letter from #kinshipcarer Wendy, our advisory group member. Covid lockup for older people? Govt must remember grandparents raising grandchildren. Their lives are entwined with those of their grandchildren. Separation is not an option.
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Our CEO @drlucypeake ‘It’s not an option for gov to ignore kinship carers anymore. It’s time they were recognised and supported properly’
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Strong input into the Care Review by our kinship care advisory group today. On the agenda: advice, equality of support for all kinship carers - incl £ allowances, post-18 support for young people, support for birth parents, adoption leave parity, investment in peer support + more
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We're delighted to receive @TNLComFund funding to create a digital hub for kinship carers. Our survey showed that 84% of kinship carers don't get the advice & info they need when they take in a child. The hub will be a BIG part of the solution
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We are delighted to have been selected alongside @NSPCC, @barnardos, @MuslimCouncil, @FamilyRightsGp, @FosterTalk, @CareLeavers, @Become1992, @driveforwardsea and @AdoptionUK for this vital funding from @educationgovuk – read more below.
Today we've announced £7m for a coalition of charities led by @barnardos to provide targeted help to vulnerable children, young people and their families affected by #coronavirus . Find out more:
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Thank you to everyone who attended our event with @ChildFamJustice @CoramBAAF and esp to speakers Sir Andrew McFarlane, Mr Justice Keehan @JoshMacAlister @krishk @minimaxcamp @SteveWLeeds. Great to bring together so many people to develop a #SpecialGuardianship agenda for change.
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Kinship carers ‘ignored & exploited.’ We call for ‘overhaul of how they’re treated & supported.' | via @telegraph
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We teamed up with award winning production company @MyPocketsArts for a new film for #KinshipCareWeek, ‘Something to be proud of’, which tells the story of a child’s journey into kinship care. Please watch and share!
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It's #selfcareweek, an important reminder for #kinshipcarers to look after themselves as well, 'so your children get the best of you, not what's left of you' @dr_treisman.
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After a competitive tender process, Kinship has been awarded an 18-month contract, worth £3m, by the Department for Education, to develop a training and support programme for kinship carers in England. More information:
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What a fantastic inaugural meeting of the Kinship Care Research Network. So inspiring to hear about so much new #kinshipcare research. Thanks to Prof Elaine Farmer, Prof Joan Hunt and @Pmcgrath_swk for presenting. We're planning future meetings - let us know if you'd like to join.
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Heartbreaking, honest writing about #kinshipcare. My daughter was an addict so I took in four of her children
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💛 160,000 children across England and Wales are being raised in #KinshipCare by grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins and family friends. #KinshipCarers #KinshipFamilies
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#KinshipCareWeek is finally here!🎉. We're excited to share stories and messages of celebration, spreading the word of the fearless dedication of #kinshipcarers and their families. Have you got someone in mind you'd like to celebrate? Get involved 👇.
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It was lovely to see @JoshBabarinde celebrate and pay tribute to the amazing #ValueOurLove campaigner and #KinshipCarer, Wendy, in Parliament yesterday, and highlight the injustice in financial support for #KinshipFamilies. 💛
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Schools will be open for children with a social worker or SEND plan. While some children in kinship care have a social worker, others don’t. Could all children with SGOs, residence orders and child arrangements orders be classed as vulnerable?
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💛 Meyrem, an aunt #KinshipCarer from London, spoke about the connection and joy she had meeting Professor Green's grandmother. #ThePrincessofWales.#RoyalFamily.#ProfessorGreen.@KensingtonRoyal.@EarlyChildhood.@ProfessorGreen
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Happy New Year to all the grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, family friends who step in to raise a relative or friend’s child. What you do is remarkable and we’re here to support you and your children every step of the way #KinshipCareMatters
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“Tom was delivered to us by 2 policemen at 3am. He came in a hospital gown and a nappy and that was it,” says Diana. Though unprepared, when social workers asked her to have the baby she didn’t hesitate. She would raise him. Kinship carers deserve support.
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We hope after this #KinshipCareWeek everyone knows a bit more about what it means to be a kinship carer - you deserve to be recognised. #ProudKinshipCarer.
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❗️Newsflash: We've been awarded funding from @comicrelief to develop a powerful network of #kinshipcarer campaigners to raise awareness and use their voices to incite better support and outcomes for kinship families. Read more about Kinship Campaigners:.
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Today the Government will be publishing the first ever National Kinship Care Strategy for England. 💛. Keep your eyes peeled for updates on the Strategy on our social media and website: 👀
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“They said come & pick the boys up right away or they’d be taken into care.” But Graham soon found he and the boys had no right to support. “I’m still fighting 10 years on.” Like Graham, we’re calling for kinship carers to have the right to support in law.
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Fantastic to have @JoshMacAlister, MP for Whitehaven & Workington, attending our Parliamentary Reception. 🎉. Pictured with one of our many #KinshipCarer campaigners, Josh has been a great champion of #KinshipFamilies and the support they need and deserve. 💛. #ValueOurLove
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We’re delighted to have welcomed Children’s Minister, @JanetDaby, and new Kinship Care Ambassador @jahninedavis to meet #KinshipCarers at a Kinship support group in Woolwich today to mark #KinshipCareWeek. A thread 🧵
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A wake up call to Government! Our new survey shows that 32% of kinship carers are worried about their health and their ability to carry on caring without more support. That's 64,000 children who might need to go into care. Read the report: #KinshipCareWeek
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Jemma was finishing university when she got a phone call that changed everything. She tells @janegarvey1 about how she stepped in to raise her younger brother and sister. #ThisIsKinshipCare
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*Thousands* of children being raised by relatives in #KinshipCare are often suffering from life-changing trauma with no support. 💔. Sign Poppy’s open letter and urge the Government not to forget about children in kinship care: ✏️. #ValueOurLove 💛
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Dealing with the death of a parent is sadly quite common for children raised in #kinshipcare. The new @griefencounter helpline can help👇🏼.
There’s no cure for children’s grief. Yet today a new @griefencounter helpline launches. I hope it'll mean kids going thru the searing pain now will be less scarred than I was. I'm doing it for mother's day, for a v personal reason. Pls read & share so people know about the help
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💛 It's #VolunteersWeek! At Kinship, we want to give a huge shout out to our amazing volunteers who support other kinship carers via our online chat messaging service, Someone Like Me phone service and peer support groups.
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Congratulations to @bphillipsonMP for becoming the next Education Secretary in the new @UKLabour Government. We're hugely grateful for her support for kinship carers and the #ValueOurLove campaign while she was Shadow Education Secretary - see below👇.
This week I spoke at @kinshipcharity’s event in Parliament. Labour will not forget kinship carers. We will not forget the children you care for. We will not forget the difference you make. We will always remember the love you give.
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Many thanks to Shadow Secretary of State for Education @bphillipsonMP for speaking so passionately about #KinshipFamilies at our #ValueOurLove campaign launch reception. "I can promise that kinship carers will not be forgotten.".
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Around 200,000 UK children are being raised in kinship care. Watch our new film with @FamilyLives:
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🎄 Our 10,200 #ValueOurLove petition signatures and Christmas baubles have now been delivered to @10DowningStreet for @educationgovuk and @GillianKeegan. 👏 A huge thank you to @munirawilson, @timloughton and @WalkerWorcester for supporting #ValueOurLove today!
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Time to pop on your red noses for #KinshipFamilies! 🔴 . Take a sneak peek of a film @ComicRelief will be launching tomorrow, Thursday 14 March, for #RedNoseDay, in which @thisisdavina meets three of Kinship's inspiring #ValueOurLove campaigners, Kelly, Meyrem and Wendy.
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💛 Together they shared their personal stories, as well as the joys and challenges of being a #KinshipCarer and the need for more emotional and practical support. ✨ Thank you for spreading the message of #KinshipCare to thousands more people.
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