Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

Significant disparities in access to support for kinship carers have been laid bare in a survey of councils, whose results were published last week.
The availability of support differed by locality, whether the child had previously been in care or not and by the type of kinship arrangement or legal order they were cared for under, showed the study by evidence body Foundations, released to coincide with Kinship Care Week.
The findings come with a separate survey of almost 1,700 kinship carers, al