Kinship Care Week

Kinship Care Week is an opportunity to celebrate the incredible role that kinship carers play in children’s lives and society. Kinship Care Week 2025 will take place from 6 to 12 October 2025. Watch this space for more information on how to get involved this year.

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  1. What is Kinship Care Week?
  2. Kinship Care Week 2024
  3. See how others celebrated on social media
  4. History of Kinship Care Week

What is Kinship Care Week?

Kinship Care Week is a yearly celebration of the incredible role that kinship carers play in children’s lives and society. It’s a chance for us to reflect on the contribution kinship carers make to society. But also to campaign for better support.

Kinship Care Week 2025 will take place from 6 to 12 October 2025. More information on how to get involved will be available soon.

Kinship Care Week 2024

Last year, we celebrated Kinship Care Week from 7 to 13 October 2024.

Watch our #ThisIsKinshipCare animation, launched during Kinship Care Week. Written and recorded by kinship carers, the film speaks to the joy, the warmth, the humour, the love, as well as the challenges of being a kinship family.

See how others celebrated on social media

We saw some amazing activities taking place during Kinship Care Week 2024. You can see what others got up to on our social media channels.

"Fostering is a well-known term; why isn’t kinship care?"

Jane, Kinship carer

An older woman sitting at the kitchen table eating an apple and looking at her laptop.

Looking back at Kinship Care Week

2017

A design workshop reimagining kinship care brought together kinship carers, social workers, academics, and charities to discuss solutions to some of the challenges faced by kinship families. They agreed that an awareness week for kinship families should become a national priority.

2018

The first ever Kinship Care Week is held across England and Wales, in partnership with Kinship Carers Liverpool.

Since 2020

Kinship Care Week is now national event, held every October to highlight the amazing work kinship carers do. Read more about what happened in Kinship Care Week 2020, Kinship Care Week 2021, Kinship Care Week 2022 and Kinship Care Week 2023.

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