Kinship Care helps to create stability and continuity in a child’s life.
Kinship Care Ireland works with and on behalf of families, to create a better understanding of kinship care and ensure that the specific needs of carers, children and young people are acknowledged and addressed
What is Kinship Care?
Kinship care is the full-time parenting of children by grandparents, older siblings, aunts and uncles, other relatives, or close friends of the family when their parents are no longer able to look after them.
It occurs for many reasons, for example, the death of a parent, parental substance misuse, abandonment, illness, or imprisonment.
It can be temporary or permanent arrangement and can also be on a formal or informal basis.
Are you raising a child for a relative or friend?
Are you a grandparent, aunt, uncle, older brother, or sister, relative or family friend raising a child who is unable to live with their parents?
If so, you are a Kinship Carer.
News & Events
Treoir’s Kinship Care Ireland responds to RTÉ documentary Inside the Care System
Last night’s RTÉ documentary Inside the Care System has brought into sharp focus the realities
International Kinship Care Week (October 6th–10th)
This October 6th-10th, we will proudly celebrate Ireland’s second-ever Kinship Care Week. On behalf of
Join our call for support of Kinship Care in Ireland
This International Kinship Care Week (October 6th–10th), Ireland joins a global campaign to champion families who
The survey for “parents who have experience with their child(ren) being in an informal kinship care arrangement” is now live
“As part of the ongoing Kinship Care policy work underway by the Department of Children
Kinship families need to be valued
We need to fully recognise ‘kinship care’ within Ireland, says Kinship Care Ireland Co-ordinator LAURA
Opinion: ‘We knew we would parent our grandson, we had no choice, but we also had no support’
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/kinship-care-6244007-Dec2023/ One Kinship Carer says there are about 8,000 children in Ireland living with relatives