Calling all Kinship Carers!

Kinship Care Week runs from 11-15 March 2024 and in a bid to link up fellow kinship carers – also known as family and friends’ carers - an informal afternoon of coffee, cake and chat is being held at The Storehouse Restaurant, Bridge Street Wynd, Kirkwall on Wednesday 13 March from 1pm-3pm. 

Kinship carers, past and present, are welcome along to the event in a safe, peer led environment, to offer support and friendship, and to share in their lived experiences as part of the week to celebrate their role. 

Kinship care is where a child or young person lives full-time with a relative or friend because they are unable to live with their birth parents. 

It is an alternative to foster or residential care whereby a child can live with a family member, or sometimes a very close friend, to offer stability and a continued sense of belonging in the aftermath of family breakdown.