User:Kickassgranny

Hi kickassgranny here, I am new to this site so please bear with me as i plod along. I am secretary of a grandparents support group in the east end of glasgow we are called The New Fossils and we care for our grandchildren because their own parents are addicted to drugs or alcoholand are incapable of caring for these children. We campaign for better recognition for kinship carers,until recently we did not get any assistance from the governmentand now in Glasgow we get the princely sum of £40 per week!. We would like to be treated the same as foster carers as we do the same job but we do it out of love and that is where the powers that be have us they know we will not let these kids go into care thus saving them an absolute fortune. We fundraise to take our kids on holiday once a year and they have a ball, most of these kids never had a holiday before and they dont have to feel different because they are being raised by grandparents they know they are all equal in our group if only the government could treat them as equal to foster children we would not have to get in to debt trying to make sure they dont miss out on anything and being mostly pensioners it is not easy but always worth it to see them smile when you get them the trainers or jacket they wanted like their friends.Nearly all of these children have behavoural and social problems because of the things they have seen or had done to them when with their parents but they wont hear a bad word against them and that is really frustrating.