Around 50,000 children and young people in Queensland live in informal kinship care with grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins, and other relatives to keep them out of the child protection system.

Informal Kinship Carers make significant sacrifices including postponing retirement, withdrawing their superannuation, changing careers, disrupting relationships and being forced into poverty.

These carers fall between the cracks of Federal and State Governments and receive little or no financial or other support to for children in their care.
On Wednesday 20 October, PeakCare hosts the fourth Kinship Care Forum and asks the question – What Informal Kinship Carers need, what they really, really need?

It happens during Anti-Poverty Week with local, national, and international speakers including from the UK and NZ to shine a light on the needs of carers and children.