McCartan, Claire and Bunting, Lisa and Bywaters, Paul and Davidson, Gavin and Elliott, Martin and Hooper, Jade Elizabeth (2018) A Four-Nation Comparison of Kinship Care in the UK:The Relationship between Formal Kinship Care and Deprivation. Social Policy and Society, 17 (4). pp. 619-635. ISSN 1474-7464
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
The practice of extended family and friends helping to care for children when their parents are unable to is an enduring tradition in many cultures. Kinship care provides the largest proportion of out of home care in Western society but many of these carers experience poverty and deprivation, and do not receive comparable levels of support, financial or professional, to other placement types. This study provides UK evidence for the relationship between kinship care and deprivation and examines how the welfare state frames kinship care in policy and practice.