Kinship Care Week: 7 to 13 October 2024

Kinship Care Week is an opportunity to celebrate the incredible role that kinship carers play in children’s lives and society. It’s also an important time to help everyone understand what kinship care is.

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  1. Download your digital resource pack
  2. Keep us updated on social media
  3. History of Kinship Care Week

Kinship Care Week 2024

Kinship Care Week (7 to 13 October 2024) has officially landed and so has our new #ThisIsKinshipCare animation.

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.

To ensure our kinship care message travels far and wide this Kinship Care Week, please share the animation and follow us on socials to stay up to date: Facebook – @kinshipcarecharity; Instagram – @kinship_charity and X – @kinshipcharity.

Help raise awareness of kinship care

In our digital resource packs, you’ll find the following to help raise awareness of kinship care and support Kinship Care Week:

  • your guide to Kinship Care Week 2024
  • activities you can do to support Kinship Care Week
  • promotional materials (flyers, social media)
  • template email for kinship carers to invite their MP/councillor
  • lunch-and-learn workshops for local authorities

Resource packs for kinship carers and supporters

Resource packs for local authorities

Resource packs for organisations

Keep us updated on social media

We can’t wait to see all the activities you get up to! But make sure to include the hashtags #ThisIsKinshipCare and #KinshipCareWeek so we can see how far #KinshipCare travels during Kinship Care Week!

Don’t forget to tag Kinship in your messages and photos from #KinshipCareWeek on social media so we can share them. You can find us here:

"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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