Advice, information and support for grandparents, great-grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends to bring up children when biological parents are unable to do so.
What is Kinship?
Kinship care is where a child or young person lives full-time with a relative or family friend because they are not able to live with their birth parents. Thousands of people care for children because their birth parents are unable to do so.
Kinship care is also known as ‘family and friends care’, ‘connected care’, ‘relative care’ or kincare and has always been with us. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, cousins and close friends have always come forward to keep children in the family when there is a crisis or breakdown of relationships.
Kinship Carers Liverpool
We can provide one to one information, advice and support over the phone, or face to face. We can signpost you to a range of support services such as legal advice, benefits/debt advice, and help you navigate through the complex range of issues you may be trying to cope with on a daily basis. We can guide you through the maze of services out there – whether you are a new kinship carer or been looking after a kin child for years.
The website has information on:
Schools & Learning
Legal Advice & Options
Early Help & Wellbeing Support
Money & Benefits
- What areas of the city is this for?
- People from anywhere in the city
Contacts
- All enquiries (contact form available on the website)
- eve@kinshipcarersliverpool.co.uk
- 0151 270 2108
