Research by children’s charity Buttle UK, which provides grants to help vulnerable children in the UK, and the University of Bristol, shows that around 173,200 children were being raised by family members in 2001, approximately one in every 77 children in the UK. This figure is likely to have increased significantly in the last ten years, claim the authors.
The Spotlight on Kinship Care report, the first phase of a two-part study funded by the Big Lottery and based on data from the 2001 census, revealed that cities had higher rates of kinship care, with one in every 59 children in Bristol being brought up by a relative. Forty-four per cent of kinship families were living in the poorest areas of the country.
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