Kinship carers are family or friends who step up, often during an unexpected crisis, to care for a child when their parents aren’t able to.
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As the leading kinship care charity in England and Wales, our press office and experts are happy to help with all media enquiries about kinship care. Find out how to get in touch.
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As the leading kinship care charity in England and Wales, our press office and experts are happy to help with all media enquiries about kinship care.
The Kinship media team can be contacted on:
- Telephone: 07984 600 234
- Email: media@kinship.org.uk
The media team work Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. If you have an urgent media request on the weekend or after office hours, please contact us by telephone on the number above, as this is staffed out of hours.
We have the latest and most comprehensive statistics on kinship care, as well as case studies, celebrity ambassadors and expert spokespeople available for interviews.
With an engaged community of more than 10,000 kinship carers we are able to find kinship carers with the specific lived experiences or from the specific locations that journalists are looking for.
Our press team sensitively work with kinship families to ensure that their involvement in media work is done safely and that they are supported through the process.
Kinship works to raise awareness of the challenges facing kinship families and get kinship carers the recognition and support they need. So if you are a journalist, we’d love to talk to you.
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