The Government has been urged to devote more attention and resources to the potential for having 'looked after' children placed with their grandparents and other relatives as an alternative to putting them in fostering or residential care. Research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown that, in spite of being largely invisible as a policy issue, 'kinship care' is popular with children and the relatives and family friends who provide it. The study of placements in the south London borough of Wandsworth also suggests that kinship care arrangements tend to be more stable and last longer than many of the alternatives.
The Government has been urged to devote more attention and resources to the potential for having 'looked after' children placed with their grandparents and other relatives as an alternative to putting them in fostering or residential care. Research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown that, in spite of being largely invisible as a policy issue, 'kinship care' is popular with children and the relatives and family friends who provide it. The study of placements in the south London borough of Wandsworth also suggests that kinship care arrangements tend to be more stable and last longer than many of the alternatives.
