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Kinship Care in a Digital World – free workshop on findings from the project

Throughout June 2024, AFKA Scotland undertook focus groups with kinship carers and kinship practitioners from across Scotland to find out more about the challenges of caring for kin in a digital world and how supports might be improved for kinship carers. On 21st August between 10.00am and 12.30pm, the University of Edinburgh will host a …

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Supporting Foster Carers and Kinship Carers at Children’s Hearings

Children’s Hearings are often a tense and confusing experience for carers and the children in their care. It is a formal legal forum where difficult family issues are discussed, and birth parents will be present. Foster carers and kinship carers need support in understanding the procedures, what their role and rights are, putting forward their views and helping the young people deal with their reactions to the Hearing.