To mark Kinship Care Week 2024, Dr Joanna Soraghan, Data Analyst at CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, shared some initial findings from CELCIS’s analysis into the experiences of children living in ‘formal’ kinship care within Scotland.
The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is being conducted by CELCIS in partnership with the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research and is using anonymised data gathered by local authorities on all children in kinship care in Scotland between 2008 and 2019.
The research has found that an increasing proportion of children are now cared for by kinship carers under voluntary care arrangements, while the average length of time a child or young person spent being cared for by kinship carers was around 16 months (though this varied greatly in different parts of Scotland).
The full findings will be published in the summer on the Growing Up In Kinship Care project page.
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