Ten top tips on supporting kinship placements ebook only

The Ten Top Tips series considers some of the fundamental themes in child care practice in concise, practical guides ideal for busy practitioners.

Kinship care is often an option for children who cannot live with their birth parents. How can social workers undertake robust assessments of kinship carers? How can workers enable kinship carers to explore all the options open to them? How can we work together with family and friends to help children remain in their families? This guide helps workers to recognise the challenges of kinship care and be better prepared to support kinship carers. It explores some of the fundamental positive steps that workers can take to ensure that kinship care is as successful as possible for the children and carers involved.

This guide is ideal for all social workers who are involved with children who are, or who may be, living in kinship care.

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