Sentences with phrase «including grandparent carers»

All family and friends carers including grandparent carers living in Cardiff and surrounding areas

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Each year we advise more than 2000 kinship carers, including grandparents and older siblings, and wider family members considering taking on the care of a child who is unable to live with their parents.

Colin and Chris raised two of their grandchildren and that spurred her on 25 years ago to establish a support group in Peterborough for family and friends carers, including aunts, uncles, grandparents and siblings raising children unable to live with their parents.

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Whether families have one parent or two, whether they include step - parents, grandparents or other carers, children can experience strong, positive family relationships that promote family wellbeing and support children's mental health.

It has information about the key challenges of being a grandparent or kinship carer, and includes information about supporting carers at different stages of their caring roles.

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The report focuses on the experiences of older grandparents raising their grandchildren and highlights the challenges older carers face, including isolation, discrimination and poverty.

It can include extended family members such as grandparents and kinship carers.

Our concept of «family» has changed over time and now describes a much wider range of connections between people, including single parent families, blended families, aunts and uncles, grandparents, carers and other groups of people who are significant in each other's lives.

That relative or friend is called a «kinship carer», and it's estimated that around half of kinship carers are grandparents, but many other relatives including older siblings, aunts, uncles, as well as family friends and neighbours can also be kinship carers.

They promote policies and practices, including family group conferences, that help children to be raised safely and securely within their families, and campaign for effective support to assist family and friends carers, including grandparents who are raising children that can not live at home.

31 % comprised wider family and friends, these are primarily kinship carers, including grandparents and older siblings who are raising children unable to live with their parent.

Including contributions by Lady Justice Hale, High Court Judge Sir James Munby, Professor June Thoburn, and grandparent carer Robin Derriman, this Family Rights Group Reader analyses the provisions for Special Guardianship and explores its potential use in meeting children's long term needs when they can not return home.

The Kinship Care Alliance (which is serviced by Family Rights Group and made up of organisations including Grandparents Plus) is conducting a survey of family and friends carers aka kinship carers.

Specialist legal advice for grandparents, including local authority responsibilities and other issues affecting kinship carers.

This can include foster carers, grandparents, or family and friends foster carers.

playgroups for parents and carers that include Aboriginal families, dads, step - parents, grandparents, foster carers, family day care educators, refugees and newly arrived families and children

Consistency of care — all carers of the child (including parents, grandparents, teachers, child care workers and so on) need to be consistent in the way they behave towards and manage the child.