Comments for EU Kinship Carers Project

Comment on Project Team by Foster Families Magazine

Foster Families Magazine — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:56:53 +0000

Hi there,
I’d like to tell you about Foster Families Magazine, a lifestyle magazine offering support and advice to foster carers. You can sample and download the magazine here: http://fosterfamilies.co.uk/download.html. It would be a great resource for your kinship carers. Please get in touch if you’d like to know more. Ceressa

Comment on Project Team by admin

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:01:23 +0000

Hi Julie, yes we saw that and it’s really great to start to be able to put a realistic figure to the numbers of kinship carers there are in the UK.

I really look forward to reading your second report and seeing how it compares to the findings we made about the issues in the lives of the carers we’ve been working with across Europe.

Comment on Project Team by Dr Julie Selwyn

Dr Julie Selwyn — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:58:34 +0000

Dear team, I’d like to alert you to the launch of the first part of our study ‘ Your Family: Your Voice’ on kinship care in the UK. In the first stage we have analysed the 2001 census data and this report is now available on our web site. In the second stage we are interviewing 80 kinnship carers and young people asking about their lives, stresses and supports. best wishes Julie

Comment on Italian Kinship Carers by Dr Valerie O'Brien

Dr Valerie O'Brien — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:28:13 +0000

I am involved in researching kinship care in Ireland at University College Dublin . If you would like to know what is happening here / or if you are putting any future bids together, please contact me.

Comment on The Children of Prisoners by Jennie Cross

Jennie Cross — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:20:50 +0000

Hi,

I’m from HMP Altcourse and we would like to know if you have any literature we could purchase please?
We did find some great leaflets on the PADA website, about drug use and familes, but this is now unaccessable.
Any information you could give me would be very helpful.

Many thanks
Jennie Cross
Manager
HMP Altcourse
0151 522 2022

Comment on Forgotten Families: Family and Friends carers and alcohol or drug misuse by Early Intervention – Supporting Kinship Carers | EU Kinship Carers Project

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:01:53 +0000

[...] Chair of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse in England, and was the chair of the seminar I recently addressed in the House of Lords about the issues of kinship care and substance [...]

Comment on Spanish Kinship Carers Speak by admin

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:36:38 +0000

Hopefully we’ve now sorted that out.

Comment on Jurgita talks about Kinship Care in Lithuania by GILLIAN BROWN

GILLIAN BROWN — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:01:18 +0000

I would like to attempt to trace a young boy who was taken into care in lithuania at 5years of age. He will be 13 next month. Are you able to give me any advice as to how I can try to locate him.

Comment on Kinship Carers Drug Prevention Support for Adolescents by sheree hughes

sheree hughes — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:32:18 +0000

Oh my god at last someone is talking about a subject that has for so long been either ignored or denied. I am a un-registered un-trained and un-paid carer for my 3 grand children who through no fault of their own have been for the want of a better word “dumped” on a gran who adores them.
I was expecting that after bringing up my own 3 children single handed and working to keep them that I would enjoy the benefits of becoming a grandma e.g days out ,treats for them ,a few days at the seaside the normal life of a grandma after a life-time of stigmatism of being a single mum(it was far less acceptable not so long ago)
Alas this was not to be my eldest son lived with a girl who had a beautiful little boy aged 1 and a not so nice drug problem. they went on to have 2 more children but even though I constantly tried to help she ended up walking out leaving my son to care for the kids which he was not able to do. Consequently it was left for me to take them on or put them in foster care.
To cut a long story short all the kids came to live with me even the eldestwho I am not related but I love as much as the others, but he is 14 now and is very hard work the little girl is 12 and has un-identified learning problems that nobody will help me to sort out and the youngest aged 10 is just beginning to question his authority about who is in charge of what. My health has suffered I am always tired, I suffer from back problems, I never envisaged that I would spend all my life looking after children not that I would have it any other way but once again I feel lonely separated from a social life of my own , aware of the questioning looks on peoples faces when I say my grandkids live with me,

Comment on England: Family and Friends Care Guidance by Denise Latimer

Denise Latimer — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:10:09 +0000

I am the agency panel adivser in Plymouth local authority and I am looking for information that could form part of a presentation to social workers who are dealing with an increasing amount of these cases.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.