This page is devoted to the life and stories of people living as Kinship Carers.

Credit for these accounts goes to Kim Hall, lecturer for Childcare & Early Years studies at Northumbria University.

Her book, Stories of Living in Kinship Care Families, researched and shed light on the accounts of Kinship families across the North East and helped raise awareness of their daily experiences.

You can read some of the stories below and how the carers have conveyed their experiences through prose, poetry and paintings.