Keep updated with all of the relevant content for kinship care following the publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s final report and recommendations.

To learn about what we’ve been campaigning for up to this point, check out our campaigns page and explore our Out of the Shadows report.

Latest news and media

Our story: Review recommendations mark a seismic change for kinship care

Featuring Kinship

Sandra and Lucy on BBC News

Hear from Sandra, a kinship carer, and Dr Lucy Peake, Chief Executive, on BBC News.

Meyrem and family on Good Morning Britain

Meyrem, an auntie and kinship carer, speaks to Good Morning Britain with her family about becoming a kinship carer.

Lucy and Meyrem on BBC 5 Live

Lucy and Meyrem speak to Clare McDonnell on 5 Live Drive about the Review. The section starts at 1:18:51. 

Alex Cunningham MP in The House magazine

Parliamentary ally Alex Cunningham, MP for Stockton North, celebrates our campaigning and the Review’s kinship focus.

Kinship care in the news

• Care system: Help families before they reach crisis, urges Review (BBC News)

• Overhaul of children’s social care in England urgent and unavoidable, review finds (The Guardian)

• Ministers told to slap windfall tax on top private children’s home providers (Mirror)

• Care review urges national social work pay scales to reward expertise and boost retention (Community Care)

• Review calls for ‘whole system reset’ of ‘broken’ children’s social care market (Local Government Chronicle)

Kinship care in Parliament

In the Commons

Check out all the contributions from MPs on kinship care following the ministerial statement on Monday 23 May.

In the Lords

Watch all of the contributions from Peers on kinship care in the Lords chamber on Tuesday 24 May.