From England to Jamaica: fresh insights into family support for Black kinship carers
April 9, 2024
Sharon Mcpherson is a passionate campaigner for racial equity in policy and practice and investment in race related kinship care research. A mother and grandmother, British born, of Jamaican parentage. Sharon is also a kinship carer who currently has two grandsons growing up in her care. A kinship carer is anyone who is looking after another person’s child on a full-time basis. Here she reflects on her Churchill Fellowship research trip to Jamaica.