Kinship's new 2026 annual survey report reveals how a decade of evidence, repeated warnings and calls for change have failed to deliver meaningful progress for children growing up in kinship care.
Time Hasn’t Healed: Annual survey of kinship carers 2026
11 November 2026
Time Hasn’t Healed shares an updated ‘state of the nation’ overview based on key findings from Kinship’s 2026 annual survey of nearly 1,500 kinship carers, identifying evidence of both demonstrable progress and deteriorating experiences since the very first Kinship annual survey in 2016.
It calls for a renewed national focus on the mental health of children in kinship care given evidence of significant and urgent need, against a backdrop of other recent welcome improvements.
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