Working with Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren Due to Parental Substance Use

This guide offers advice and suggestions to support service providers to deliver effective services to grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren due to parental substance misuse. It draws heavily on the work of Adfam’s Grandparent Carers Project, a programme of work funded by the City Bridge Trust between 2008 and 2011. The project’s overall aim was to develop and improve services for grandparent carers through:

• Raising awareness of the issues faced by this group.
• Developing programmes and methods of support through seminars and workshops for carers.
• Developing awareness, understanding and skills of the existing workforce who come in to contact with grandparent carers through their work.