Tell us your experiences of becoming a kinship carer while in work

While other working parents and carers are entitled to some form of paid leave, kinship carers taking on the care of a child are expected back to work the next day.

Kinship carers face an impossible decision - take unpaid leave or quit their jobs. This leaves many kinship families facing significant financial hardship.

In a few weeks, the government are planning to launch a new review into the rules on leave from work for working parents, and we need to make sure the review includes kinship carers.

We want to hear your good and bad experiences - so we can make lots of noise now and show the government why kinship carers must be included in their Review.

Sharing your experiences with us now will help us make the case for paid kinship care leave being included in the Review, as well as build our evidence base and develop the campaign we’ll be part of together.

Tell us:

What happened with your work or job when you became a kinship carer?

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I had to leave my job

I had to take unpaid leave

I got paid leave

I went part time

I wasn't working

I got some support from my employer

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What support did your employer give you when you became a kinship carer?

How did it make you feel?

Who did you work for?

You don’t have to tell us if you’d rather not.

We need to hear from kinship carers who were working when they took on the care of a child. You can still support the #ValueOurLove campaign's call for paid leave for kinship carers by ticking this box. There will be plenty of opportunities to get involved.

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Are you a kinship carer?

A kinship carer is a family member or friend who steps up to raise a child when they can't live with their birth parents. This includes: family and friends foster carers, those with a special guardianship order (SGO) or child arrangements order (CAO), informal kinship carers with no legal order, family and friends carers or connected carers.

Yes, I am a kinship carer

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We’re stepping up the fight to get kinship carers and their children the support they urgently need.
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