Kinship Care Week 2025

Kinship Care Week (6-12 October) is a national week of awareness, recognition, and celebration of kinship families across England and Wales.

It’s a time to shine a light on the vital role of kinship carers, those raising a child of a family member or a friend, who provide over 141,000 children in England and Wales with loving and stable homes.  

This includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, family friends and connected persons - who step up in extraordinary ways to keep children connected to their families, roots and communities.  

Kinship Care Week reminds us that there is a powerful community of kinship carers who share their experiences in many different ways to help other kinship carers feel less lonely and isolated.  

This week, we are shining a light on these important connections forged between kinship carers. The conversations, the friendships, and the shared understanding from being in the same boat. 

This Kinship Care Week let’s raise a teacup together to kinship families everywhere!

Join Kinship’s Community – a national network of over 15,000 kinship carers and their supporters - for support and connection.