‘You have 10 minutes to decide’: answering the life-changing call to become a kinship carer

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1. Sun, 4 October 2026

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   • The Guardian World06:00first to report
     ‘You have 10 minutes to decide’: answering the life-changing call to become a kinship carer

     Those who have stepped in to keep young family members from going into care in England and Wales say the decision has brought them joy and hardship Clive vividly remembers the day when, without warning or time to work out what he was really letting himself in for, he became a kinship carer. “The social worker left, the door closed and Savannah was lying there in a carry cot, wrapped up in a pink blanket. She looked so calm and so comfy, absolutely oblivious about what’s just happened. Continue...