Do you care for someone who has been prenatally exposed to alcohol? Do you want to know more and ask questions about #FASD? Buy your ticket for one of our 3-hour courses for parents and carers coming soon: ow.ly/AwE950MSP5h (FREE for Parents/Carers in Scotland) #FASDHubUK

Government cuts tax credits and benefits for low-income families with children while more tax cuts for the wealthy. Women and babies are dying in childbirth and run the risk of child removal if they survive! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Coffee Morning ☕️ Are you a Kinship Carer looking for some extra support? Come and join us today from 10am-12pm for a cuppa and a chat! Big Hearts offers support to young people and their carers through our Kinship Care programme 🧸♥️ How to attend ↘️ bighearts.org.uk/programmes/kin…

Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland

Our Summer Newsletter will soon be available for download from our website. Thanks to our sponsors during this quarter @NLCF, The Robertson Trust, Cash for Kids Edinburgh, Lothians, Fife & Falkirk Up and coming event, Fete & Bar-b-q on 1 July 2023. Everyone welcome, Free entry.

Remember folks to download our Summer 2023 Newsletter from our website kinshipcare-midlothian.co.uk ; it's packed full of information for Midlothian kinship carers elaine The Robertson Trust Dawn GIRFEC

A week of planning for KCM-SCIO'S Summer Fete. Hope we get a dry day tomorrow to enjoy the stalls, games and barbecue. Come along and support Midlothian kinship carers. Bring your friends to share the day with us. 📷

Kinship carers work so hard to give their kinship children a chance to be accepted and workplace success. Why therefore are we, the kinship carers, exploited by so many organisations that use our status to financially feather their own nests?

The rise in benefits tax/ cred and child benefit has been deducted from kinship payment for those already struggling on benefits ! Giving up paid work to care for 4 siblings that would cost the care system £1million a year !! National disgrace BBC Scotland News Support not Separation

Busy life as a kin-carer of a teenager off college & working at the Fringe. Me - well I'm working too in the charity's office trying to raise sufficient funds for my peers to keep receiving our charity's monthly disbursements. Aye right - Getting it right for every child!

Yes, too many people living off organisations that receive funding purporting to be working to eradicate childhood poverty; it's not going to happen. Most of the funding just goes to pay salaries/overheads it doesn't even trickle down to the frontline of childhood poverty.

Are you a grandparent, auntie/uncle or sibling who is caring for a young person in your family? Do you know that you are a 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫 and Big Hearts can offer you support through our Kinship Care programme? ♥️ Contact us to find out more | bighearts.org.uk/programmes/kin…

We want to reiterate for the final time . We are not getting at Foster carers or adopters we are getting at the system ! Please stop misconstruing this . These are OUR Families and their child’s rights as The Promise Scotland states to be with their siblings and their family !

141,000 children across England and Wales are being raised in #KinshipCare by grandparents, aunts, uncles, other relatives and family friends. ✨ Let's celebrate all #KinshipCarers raising children in stable and loving homes this #MothersDay. 💛

Spring Newsletter available for download check out website kinshipcare-midlothian.co.uk Busy times. We've got a new Chairperson too - a frontline kinship carer keen to help us move forward to deliver projects to our own peer group caring fulltime for Midlothian kin-kids.

Congratulations, this is wonderful!

Well done Angie Burt for organising the Burntisland Wristband Day for Scottish kinship carers. Great! Weather forecast looks good.

Our Winter 2024 Newsletter has been uploaded onto the download page of our charity's website kinshipcare-midothian.co.uk Thanks to all our sponsors that help our kinship children; we couldn't do the job without your thoughtfulness.

It's Springtime 2025 and we are celebrating with our latest newsletter sponsored by ELTF + dispersal of our Easter funding to Midlothian kinship families sponsored by Cash for Kids Edinburgh, Lothians, Fife & Falkirk . Take a look at our website KCM-SCIO.co.uk & download our Spring newsletter.