News

Trip to Liverpool Central Library with Liverpool Biennial Festival

10th June 2021

This is just one project Liverpool Biennial Festival have put on – We had a lovely day in Liverpool’s Central Library, hosted by Jasmin from Liverpool Biennial, showing us the art work created by Yael David inspired by Audubon’s ‘Birds

2016 Baring Foundation – Human Rights based approach

12th May 2021

Aim: 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 2021

Aim: 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 2021

Aim: 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 2021

Aim: 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 2020

in 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

Information/Resources

11th June 2020

Afternoon all,   Hope you are all keeping safe and well?  We have been working with LivPac and parents to put together a page specifically with resources for our SEND parents, this includes two personal blogs from our parents about

See what else our families are saying

9th June 2020

  Thank you so much kinship, never underestimate the difference you make to our lives. Thursday has now become the equivalent to ordering a takeaway or going out for dinner. I’m so glad I asked for those meals, I’d never

Summer with our Kinship Families

9th June 2020

We have provided, seeds, compost, tools, plants and mini greenhouses to our families, to get them growing their own produce, some already do this and are experts, some are very new, everyone is amazing, teaching their children to grow and

Thank you NHS

5th May 2020

A 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

Easter Fun

29th April 2020

Despite the lock-down we are all adhering to we still managed and Easter intergen – just look at the amazing Easter bonnets our amazing kin-kids made!     

See what our families are saying

29th April 2020

The support and contact we have been getting from kinship carers have been second to none! And especially even more now during this virus pandemic!  Making sure we have everything we need for the kids and ourselves, dropping fruit veg,

COVID-19/CORONAVIRUS

19th March 2020

COVID-19/CORONAVIRUS     To keep yourself informed of the latest information follow the links below. www.twitter.com/COVIDLiverpool (you do not have to have a Twitter account to view this) www.facebook.com/COVIDLiverpool (you will need to have a Facebook account to follow our

Thanks to Merlin’s Magic Wand

29th November 2019

A  big thank you to Merlin’s Magic Wand for their kind donations and their continued support to our project from staff and all the families who you help to make trips to Blackpool so memorable.

John Moores University Talk

30th October 2019

Some 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

Water Sports

6th August 2019

Lots of fun to be active, fresh air, a wonderful time had by all.    

2019 Parliamentary Task Force Trip to London

19th July 2019

On 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

Easter Intergen

23rd April 2019

Very talented families making Easter Bonnets and baskets, a nice chicken curry and a game of bingo, what a wonderful day we had.  

Autism in Motion Picnic in the park

23rd April 2019

We had a lovely day campaigning for support and recognition for Kinship Carers, whilst supporting Autism in Motion who put on another successful year for Picnic in the Park.