Sentences with phrase «supports grandparent carers»

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Sally has personal experience of kinship care in her own family and is therefore very aware of the need to ensure proper support is given, particularly to grandparent carers.

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.

Run by national kinship care charity Grandparents Plus, Kinship Connected will provide one to one support and develop peer support groups for Special Guardians and kinship carers in Barnet, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Southwark.

It recognises the importance of the Internet in the lives of children and young people, and helps ensure that they and those that support children, parents, carers, grandparents, teachers, know how to get the most out of the internet and use it safely and responsibly.

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In this video, grandparents who care for grandchildren talk about support groups, meeting other grandparent carers and working with family support workers.

Whether you're just starting out or you've been caring for a child for a while, there are many support services for grandparents and kinship carers that can help you.

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.

This guide is for service providers who support or have contact with grandparent and kinship carers.

This guide has information and links for grandparent carers and kinship carers to Australia - wide, state and territory services, support and help.

This link takes you to a list of support groups for grandparent carers.

Springwood Neighbourhood Centre Co-operative This organisation runs programs and support groups for grandparent and kinship carers in the Blue Mountains and western Sydney.

Western Australia Wanslea Grandcare This agency provides information and support to grandparent carers in Perth and southern Western Australia.

Department of Human Services — Grandparent Advisers Grandparent advisers can give you information about payments and support services for grandparent and kinsGrandparent Advisers Grandparent advisers can give you information about payments and support services for grandparent and kinsGrandparent advisers can give you information about payments and support services for grandparent and kinsgrandparent and kinship carers.

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.

A guide for grandparent carers and kinship carers to formal and informal care arrangements, family court orders, child protection orders and financial support.

Department of Human Services — Support for non-parent carers You can use this webpage to find out about the government payments and benefits you can get when you're a full - time grandparent or kinship carer.

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You can meet other carers at grandparent and kinship carer support groups.

Family Relationships Online — For grandparents On this webpage you can find links to services and resources to support you in your role as a carer.

Services are targeted at families to support parents, grandparents, kinship carers and children of drug - using parents affected by illicit drugs.

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This resource is available to kinship carers looking for information and signposting to support groups and services, and grandparents from any circumstance or background can also phone the helpline.

We want to promote the importance of positive grandparental involvement to the well - being of all generations within families and spark conversation around what support is available to grandparent kinship carers and grandparents denied contact with their grandchildren.

Relative Experience, a unique project delivered by charity Grandparent Plus in partnership with Family Lives to support kinship carers across the North East, has given over 500 kinship carers access to specialist help, support groups and a befriending service, transforming the experience of both carers and the children they're raising.

Wirral Grandcare / Kinship Care is a non-profit organisation that offers support to Grandparents and Kinship Carers.

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Support groups in the North East have helped a groundbreaking project supporting grandparents and other family members who are raising a relative's child (as «kinship carers») reach a new milestone — supporting its 500th carer.

A groundbreaking project supporting grandparents and other family members who are raising a relative's child (as «kinship carers») across the north east of England was celebrated at an event in Newcastle yesterday, ahead of a new bid to expand the project across the country.

Q: So if there were other kinship carers out there thinking about getting involved with Grandparents Plus or going to support groups, would you encourage them?

Relative Experience, a unique project delivered by charity Grandparent Plus in partnership with Family Lives to support kinship carers across the North East, gives carers access to specialist help, support groups and a befriending service to transform the experience of both carers and the children they're raising.

The event showcased the success of Relative Experience, a unique approach delivered by charity Grandparent Plus in partnership with Family Lives to support kinship carers across the North East, giving them access to specialist help and a befriending service to transform the experience of both carers and the children they're raising.

Almost three - quarters of adults agree that kinship carers — grandparents and other family members who are bringing up a child because their parents can not look after them — should receive similar support to foster carers, says a new nationwide poll.

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.

Often these impoverished family and friends carers, mainly grandparents or older siblings, receive no support from the state and are left to deal on their own with traumatised children, putting the placement at risk.

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, challenges central and local government to do more to support the many thousands of children being brought up by family and friends carers, most commonly grandparents and older siblings.

Family and friends carers - supporting grandparents / relatives who are bringing up a child / ren due to their parental substance misuse, also offering support for young people

«There are 200,000 grandparent and other kinship carers in the UK raising children without financial or practical support.

Grandparents Plus offers such valuable support to those who become kinship carers and through this funding even more help will be provided to those in need.»

The funding will allow for more kinship carers to access support and information from the Grandparents Plus Support Network and Advice Ssupport and information from the Grandparents Plus Support Network and Advice SSupport Network and Advice Service.

Informed by and adapted from the Big Lottery funded Relative Experience programme run by Grandparents Plus in partnership with Family Lives, Kinship Connected features one - to - one support from Grandparents Plus project workers, peer support group development, workshops for kinship carers and consultancy services.

Lucy Peake, Chief Executive of Grandparents Plus said: «As a small national charity working to support a large and often invisible group of kinship carers, this funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery will be transformational and enable us to reach and support more kinship carers and their families.