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National Kinship Carers Week

The aim of "National Kinship Carers Week" is to raise awareness of Kinship Carers and to celebrate the huge commitment given by those often forgotten families who keep young people from going into Local Authority Care. National Kinship Carers Week runs from the 10th - 14th October and a variety of activities will be happening across the country and in Liverpool were this event was founded.

What is Kinship?

It is the care, nurturing and protection of children who are separated from their parents - this could be due to many factors - death, imprisonment, mental health, drugs. Many children who go to live in Kinship Care have had a very difficult start in life and their behaviour is often affected by past experiences. Kinship Carers often step in to protect the child before a crisis and receive no support.

Picture This Tommorow morning your grandchildren/niece/nephew could turn up on your doorstep - Would you be able to manage the many needs that comes with this? Could you get to work? How do this effect you and the young people in your care emotionally?

How can you get involved?

Some of the ideas we have had include:

Getting one of our beautiful Hotels to put on a High Tea for our Kinship Carers. Doing interviews on TV, Radio and Newspapers. Putting posters across Liverpool and many other cities and Towns. Kinship Care awareness event - Inviting Key Speakers "Jake's Cake Smash" - To raise awareness on Social Media. Kinship Fancy Dress event.

It would be great if other cities could join us in this - if you can do one thing in this week to raise awareness -