Nearly half of the UK’s 200,000 grandparents and kinship carers who are bringing up relatives’ children in traumatic circumstances face stigma and discrimination, often from public officials, with their children bullied and excluded from activities and many carers forced to give up their jobs, according to the first survey of its kind.
The survey Disadvantage, discrimination, reslience: the lives of kinship families reveals that:
*43% of kinship carers report having been stigmatised, discriminated against or treated rudely or differently because they are raising a relatives...
