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Kinship Care Ireland works with and on behalf of families, to create a better understanding of kinship care and ensure that the specific needs of carers, children and young people are acknowledged and addressed.
What is Kinship Care?
Kinship care is the full-time parenting of children by grandparents, older siblings, aunts and uncles, other relatives, or close friends of the family when their parents are no longer able to look after them.
It occurs for many reasons, for example, the death of a parent, parental substance misuse, abandonment, illness, or imprisonment.
It can be temporary or permanent arrangement and can also be on a formal or informal basis.
Additional resources and information for you on who we are and what we do:
- Introduction to Kinship Care webinar (1 hour): https://youtu.be/c2Xzs29LZ4k
- Awareness video (featuring children and carers): https://youtu.be/DjjkLbOe2AI
- Social media: https://www.instagram.com/kinshipcareireland/