Resources

Forgotten explores the support which children in kinship care receive – or don’t receive – to help them learn well at school and to manage their mental health and relationships. It shares insights from our 2023 annual survey of kinship carers to reveal how a complex, inadequate and often inaccessible landscape of support for kinship children around education, special educational or additional learning needs, mental health and family contact and relationships is resulting in significant challenges for kinship families across England and Wales.

Key facts:

Presentation delivered during Carers Week 24 organised by Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation have sought to understand why so many carers face financial hardship and look at how this can be addressed. 

Using data from the Understanding Society survey,1 this report investigates the dynamics of poverty among unpaid carers between 2011 and 2012, and 2019 and 2020. 

We find that:

The guide has been co-designed with young carers connected to The Junction Foundation.

This guide was designed for Healthcare Professionals to better understand how they can identify and support unpaid carers they connect with. 

On Thursday 25 April we hosted an interactive workshop providing local carers with the opportunity to come together with a selection of professionals to co-design the key messages for this years local Carers Week campaign, 10-16 June. 

We have created this summary report capturing the learning from South Tees Carers and Professionals and how the intelligence and resources will be used.