Celebrating our 9th National Kinship Carers Week
8th October 2024The success of this project had its beginnings at Ellergreen over 25 years ago, so its with thanks to our early Kinship Families who campaigned tirelessley for better services, recognition, financial, mental health support. The baton has been passed on…
National Kinship Carers Week 2024
8th October 2024Never under estimate the power of your voices and lived experience. For everyone who has supported us, from that very first cake splat to now! Kinship Carers week was started here in Liverpool from our group – this year it…
The 8th Kinship Carers week over and it was wonderful October 2023
10th October 2023Great week – lots of activites, most of all lots of campaingning and awarness for our families.
Kinship Carers 8th National Awareness Week 1st-6th October 23
22nd September 2023Great week coming up look out for all the events and new going on around the country in raising awareness for all Kinship families.
2nd-6th October 2023 – 8th Kinship Carers National Awareness Week
11th August 2023Our 8th Kinship Carers national Awareness Week – gets bigger and better every year and really has made awareness of Kinship Families and their struggles and issues they face when taking on the care of their Kin; They wont be…
KINSHIP CARERS – THE EVENT SIGINING THE KINSHIP CARERS CHARTER
22nd March 2023AMAZING TIMES WE HAVE NOW HAD OUR KINSHIP CARERS CHARTER SIGNED BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY, GIVING ALL OUR KINSHIP FAMILIES CLEAR GUIDANCE, THE FIRST EVER AND ITS THE GREATEST AND LONG AWAITED NEWS FOR OUR KINSHIP FAMILIES
Flashmob – Raising Awarness in Liverpool City Centre 2022
4th October 2022Part of Kinship Carers Raising Awarness Campaign – It was brilliant we sang, held our posters high and raised a lot of awarness. Well done to all our families who made this happen
National Kinship Carers Week – 3-2 October 2022
27th September 2022This is such an important time for us ‘National Awarness week’ after another year of hard campagining, but each year brings us more awarness of what still needs to change for our families. Each year it grows in numbers and…
National Kinship Carers Awarness Week
29th June 2022in 2016 National Kinship Carers week was established by our project Aim: to raise awareness of what Kinship Care is and to celebrate Kinship families. This has gone from strength to strength, each year is bigger and people, organisations, government…
London, campaingning, seeing the sights and having a great time
29th June 2022Back after an exhausting, busy and fabulous 2 days in london! Our young people really were amazing and their families should be so proud of them. Visiting the London Design Museum where Peter Carneys LFC flags are exhibited including the…
2016 Baring Foundation – Human Rights based approach
12th May 2021Aim: to bring local key organisation to collaboratively create a strategy of support for Kin Families. Baring Foundation funded our project to look at Kinship Care from a Human Rights based approach. 2019.pdfhttps://kinshipcarersliverpool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FINAL-report-HRBA-KC-May-2019.pdf https://kinshipcarersliverpool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Kinship-Counts-Review-Key-Actions-May-2018.docx
2020/21 Liverpool Biennial Festival
12th May 2021Aim: to raise awareness of Kinship Care and invite our families to explore different opportunities through cultural education. We have been asked to take part in Liverpool’s Biennial Festival, under the theme of ‘Kinship’ working with Israeli artist, Yeal Davids…
2015 First Young Person’s Conference
12th May 2021Aim: developed and delivered by young people to enable them to have their voices heard to an audience of Education and Social Care. Outcomes: Pledge from all attendees on how they can make a change within their service/profession to support…
2021 Cross Party Parliamentary Taskforce Update
11th May 2021Aim: Kinship Carers Liverpool led on bringing families together from the North West with meetings/conversations and consultations to have their voices heard and tell their stories in order to produce this comprehensive report. Outcome: This is a very important piece…
2016 Kinship Carers National Awareness Week was established
30th September 2020in 2016 National Kinship Carers week was established by our project Aim: to raise awareness of what Kinship Care is and to celebrate Kinship families. Outcome: each year this awareness week has gone from strength to strength with a working…
Thank you NHS
5th May 2020A video where some of our kinship families contributed their art work towards making this thanks to NHS video during these very strange times of Covid-19, lockdown, closed shops, closed schools, social distancing, not seeing our families and friends face…
John Moores University Talk
30th October 2019Some of our Kinship Carers are going along to John Moores University, to give a talk to Social Workers about what issues they face and generally what Kinship Care is all about. This is a very important date and another…
2019 Parliamentary Task Force Trip to London
19th July 2019On the 1 July a group of young kin-kids and older kin-kids who went along to Westminster to have their voices heard by MP’s and Lords. It was a very successful and emotional day for our kin-kids, once again telling…
2019 Parliamentary Taskforce
19th March 2019This is a very important time for Kinship Carers, to make changes, positive change to the outcomes for our Kinship Families, recognition. Please open link below, this will give you all the information about the Parliamentary Taskforce. Our meeting with…
2018 Bluecoat ‘In the Palm of my Hand”
13th February 2019Aim: to use art and dance to raise awareness of Kinship Care Outcome: The film was showcased to a live audience and a DVD was created to be shown in schools. We were approached by Bluecoats who came into our…