About the Project
Forgotten Families – The Needs of Kinship Carers in Europe
“I am desperate for my granddaughter to grow up and become a beautiful, bright young woman with so many opportunities at her fingertips; she deserves it following the life she has had so far.”
Across Europe there are hundreds of thousands of children and young people being cared for by family members.
Recent estimates from the UK suggest that nearly half of kinship carers are looking after children because of the drug and alcohol problems of their parents.
We have been talking to carers from across 7 European countries; to find out what their lives are like and how we can help improve their lives and the lives of the children they are looking after.
The project is being coordinated by Mentor UK, the leading drug and alcohol prevention charity for children and young people in the UK.
This is a three year project partly funded by the European Union in the framework of the Public Health Programme.
