A Keeping The Promise to brothers and sisters event is being held on Friday 9th June.
It will be held at the premises of Siblings Reunited (STAR) at East Flisk Farm in Fife.
The event, which will run from 10:30am to 2:30pm will focus on data and implementation.
More information is available here.
If you are interested in attending, please email karen@siblingsreunited.co.uk
Siblings Reunited (STAR) will feature on television on Thursday evening. The charity which reunites brothers and sisters separated in the care system, will be the focus of a 30 minute programme on STV’s Scotland Tonight show.
Following a film about the Fife-based charity, there will be a studio discussion.
Stand Up For Siblings Chair, Kate said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the work of STAR which does such amazing work.”
The programme will be aired on Thursday 18th May at 8.30pm on STV.
STAR, Siblings Reunited recently celebrated its milestone 10th birthday!
The charity has been helping brothers and sisters to meet up together for a decade now.
The award-winning Fife-based charity works tirelessly to ensure brothers and sisters get to spend quality time together.
To mark the milestone, Kate Richardson, who leads the Stand Up For Siblings partnership has created a Just Giving page to encourage people to donate to help STAR continue their amazing work. You can donate here.
Strathclyde Hidden Voices are holding their third annual conference in May. The online event will take place on Saturday 20 May from 10am-12.30pm.
This year speakers include Dr Kirsty Deacon and Jennifer Ferguson.
Dr Kirsty Deacon is currently a Research Officer with the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, working on a two-year partnership project with Families Outside exploring care- experienced children and young people’s experience of sibling imprisonment. Dr Deacon will be sharing her current and previous research with us regarding the impact of sibling imprisonment on children and young people.
Jennifer is responsible for the national co-ordination and provision of support to existing prison visitors’ centres; project management of Scottish Ministers’ funding for visitors’ centres; and development of new prison visitors’ centres in Scotland. Before joining Families Outside, Jennifer worked within a local authority Criminal Justice setting for eleven years, and prior to this within a statutory homeless assessment team for two years. She also volunteered within her local Children’s Panel for ten years.
Delegates will then come together in breakout rooms to explore common misconceptions, share our experiences and think about the ways we can use what we have learned to have an impact on the families and communities we work with.
You can sign up for the event here.
As part of Kinship Care Week 2023, Kerrie, a kinship carer and family worker for a Kinship Care Team within West Lothian explains how important it is to listen to carers and reflects on her own personal kinship journey. Read her blog on the Kinship Care website.