Children and their carers spent a day working alongside Emain Publishing to the develop a storybook for other children in kinship care. Children participated in storytelling sessions and arts and crafts and provided lots of exciting ideas for their new storybook. ‘Kuddles’ our Kinship Care Bear came along and had lots of fun working alongside […]
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Big Kinship Care Tea Party
Kinship carers and children attend the Big Kinship Care Tea Party in our Kinship Care Support Service in Derry/Londonderry.
Celebrating Grandparents Day
With over 14 million grandparents in the UK and a growing number of grandparents now raising their grandchildren, we held a Grandparents Day as a way of recognising the role grandparents play in the lives of their grandchildren. Staff and volunteers were out and about across Northern Ireland handing out lots of goodies to grandparents […]
Breakfast Club
Kinship carers from Antrim attend the weekly Breakfast Club, supported by Asda
Official Opening of Kinship Care Support Service
We were delighted to officially open our new Kinship Care Support Service in Derry/L’Derry. The opening of the service for children and young people in kinship care was attended by the Mayor of Derry, Martin Reilly, the Head of Services at Western Trust, Pat Armstrong and numerous community representatives. The special ‘celebrity’ guest on the […]