There has been considerable changes in the type of care placements that children and young people enter when they become looked after in the last 20 years. Speakers in the event highlighted the ...

“By promoting kinship care and addressing systemic issues with a long length of time to permanency and insufficient support ...

Illinois lawmakers could soon make it easier for children in foster care to live with their relatives or other people close to them. Child welfare experts have long touted the benefits of foster ...

The Imprint explored the state of kinship care — the reliance on relatives or other close caregivers that is increasingly ...

Ann Godefroy wants to know why kinship carers do not receive the same benefits that are afforded to foster parents Ann Godefroy and Nicola Allen are both in their mid-50s, and while for some at ...

The majority of these children live with relatives or friends, otherwise known as kinship care. Kinship placements can be either arranged formally through local authorities and courts, or informally ...

The percentage is still about seven times greater than Indigenous children’s representation in the state’s general population ...

Sheffield families have welcomed the news of a new allowance for kinship carers that will help them cope with the cost of ...

At 48, having raised three children now in their 20s, Jeanette Byrd is back in a world of diapers, day care and cartoons. In ...

Kinship carers play a critical and often unsung role in children's lives and ensure more young people can grow up in a loving, stable home. Introducing a statutory definition of kinship care. Building ...