family carers

Family carers discriminated against for raising relatives’ children

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...