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Kinship Care Week 2024
Kinship Care Week 2024 took place from 7 to 13 October. Find out how kinship carers celebrated this year, and watch this space for information on how to get involved with next year's Kinship Care Week.
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Kinship Care Week 2024
From 7 to 13 October 2024, we celebrated Kinship Care Week, which is an important time to recognise the incredible role that kinship carers play in children’s lives and society.
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.
- Facebook: @kinshipcarecharity
- Instagram: @kinship_charity
- X (formerly Twitter): @kinshipcharity
- LinkedIn: Kinship
"Fostering is a well-known term; why isn’t kinship care?"
Jane, Kinship carer
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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