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What’s the best way to care for children when their own parents are no longer able to look after them? Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Woman’s Hour understands that the ongoing Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England will put a major focus on kinship care – when a relative or friend takes in a child, usually in a time of crisis. Emma Barnett spoke to kinship carer Meyrem who took in her sister’s three young children when her sister, and then her sister’s partner, were unable to look after them. This is Meyrem's story.
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