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Kinship care
Many grandparents these days find themselves bringing up grandchildren – but financial help from councils is hard to come by Robert Bullard The Guardian, Wednesday April 2 2008
For the UK’s estimated 150,000-300,000 kinship carers, it remains a lottery as to what, if any, support they receive.
June Cotier was approaching 65 and looking forward to retirement and doing some travelling. Then she got a phone call: her youngest son had split up with his wife and he and his two children, aged one and two, were coming to stay. Over the following months, her son moved from one girlfriend to the next; the children went with him, but returned to Cotier in between. Then Cotier’s son suddenly disappeared. That was 10 years ago, and the children have been with her ever since.
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Young people and local politicians are using their mobiles to help change attitudes and share lives
Robert Bullard
Wednesday July 19, 2006
Five young people and five councillors in Norfolk have used their mobile phones in an effort to engage more young people in the region’s democratic process. They have taken photos that illustrate their everyday lives and shared them online (www.norfolklifeswap.org.uk).
Vivienne Clifford-Jackson, Liberal Democrat leader of South Norfolk district council, says using mobile phones offered the district council and Norfolk county council, which is also taking part, a way to reach out to young people using a method and language that they were used to. “We tend to think of young people as just a nuisance, and where crime comes from,” she says.
