To mark National Kinship Carers Awareness Week (7th–11th October), Liverpool-based charity Kinship Carers Liverpool is organising a week long series of exciting events. Kinship children are those who are looked after by a family member or a family friend. As the longest-running and largest kinship care support group in the UK, the charity has been … Read more
Liverpool City Council is hosting an event for those who support children and young people with SEND. The Council is partnering once again with Liverpool Parent Carer Forum (LivPaC) for the Local Offer LIVE Event. This is one of the city’s biggest events for families to come and meet providers and organisations which support children … Read more
In this blog, kinship carer Joan describes the support she has received from Liverpool City Council and Kinship Carers Liverpool while caring for her three grandchildren under what is known as a Special Guardianship Order, or SGO.
Liverpool City Council’s interim Chief Executive is calling on more residents to become foster carers
LIVERPOOL has become the first area in the country to launch a charter setting out how it will support kinship carers. The Kinship Charter Liverpool has been written by Kinship Carers Liverpool in partnership with Liverpool City Council with both carers, children and young people sharing their experiences to develop the framework. Kinship carers look … Read more
A consultation has begun on a budget proposal to stop offering a full Council Tax discount to foster carers registered with Liverpool City Council.
Almost 900 children and foster carers were welcomed to St George’s Hall and Anfield for Liverpool City Council’s annual Christmas parties.
A two-year plan to transform the way Liverpool City Council buys services in order to deliver better value for money for residents, is set to be implemented.
CHILDREN in care who entered an art competition earlier this year are getting ready to see professional recreations of their work. The Stand By Me art competition, organised by Liverpool City Council’s Fostering Service, asked children and young people to create artworks showing the people in their lives who stand by them. Now local artist … Read more
CHILDREN in care have shown who “stands by them” as part of a special art competition – and will now have their artworks recreated by a professional artist. The Stand By Me art competition, organised by Liverpool City Council’s Fostering Service, ran throughout Foster Care Fortnight, 9-22 May and now elements of all the entries … Read more
The hunt is on for more foster carers to look after children in the Liverpool City Region as part of a region-wide recruitment campaign.
“We have seen a steady increase this year on those thinking about fostering, our enquiry rates continue to rise, but there is so much more to do.” Stuart Williams, Service Manager. Stuart Williams, Service Manager, Fostering, Adoption and Residential Care Services takes time out to reflect on the delivery of the Foster Care campaign and … Read more
Phil Watson and his family have been fostering for Liverpool City Council since 2010. Phil is also a fostering recruitment officer for Liverpool City Council Fostering Service and offers support and advice to prospective foster carers. When men turn 40, it’s traditional to have a midlife crisis. I decided to become a foster carer. More … Read more
Donna has been a foster carer for more than ten years. For the first five years, Donna fostered with an independent agency, until she transferred to become a foster carer with Liverpool City Council, because of the investment in enhanced training and support. I had always thought about fostering and when I worked for the … Read more
Chris and Amanda have been foster carers with Liverpool City Council since March 2020. They decided to start off supporting children and young people on a part-time basis, but the Covid-19 pandemic encouraged them to become full-time foster carers. Amanda says her work in mental health was a deciding factor. “Working in mental health, I … Read more
