Improving the local offer and approach to kinship care
Dr Jahnine Davis, National Kinship Care Ambassador, recently published her Insights Report Improving the kinship local offer and approach to kinship care. Drawing on her engagement with key stakeholders since being in post, she sets out “characteristics of promising practice and the considerations needed to design kinship support that is coherent and deliverable”. The report is a much-needed reflection on the complexities of the kinship care system, and explores some of the inherent tensions when we continue to think about kinship care as part of the fostering and adoption paradigm. The event is an opportunity to hear from Jahnine reflecting on the learning in her report and what this means for local authorities developing a local offer. She will be joined by senior leaders and managers from local authorities, who will share their experiences and learning from their own journeys developing local offers in their areas.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
• How and why a local offer needs to describe a local authority’s approach to kinship care and not just be a list of support and services
• Key principles needed to underpin a local offer that reflects the whole ‘think family’ approach
• Real life examples from local authority managers and senior leaders of barriers and enablers when developing a local offer
PRESENTER
Dr Jahnine Davis, a care-experienced professional, was appointed as the National Kinship Care Ambassador in September 2024 and joined the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel in 2021. She began her career in children’s rights and participation, accumulating over 20 years of experience in both charity and statutory sectors. Jahnine founded Listen Up, an organisation dedicated to marginalised children in child protection, policy, practice, and research. She is recognised as the UK’s foremost researcher and thought leader in adultification bias in child protection. Her PhD research, “Who’s protecting us? Conditional safeguarding and the implications for Black children who experience harm in and outside the home”, explores decision-making processes in safeguarding Black children from harm, both inside and outside the home.
WHO'S IT FOR?
This session is relevant to any practitioners, managers and senior leaders involved in the development of their kinship local offers. It is relevant not only to those directly working in kinship teams but also those in partner agencies, and other parts of children social care such as early help, family hubs, and front door/intake teams. It is relevant to colleagues in health and education who work with kinship families.
FEES
OPEN TO ALL
Contact
Telephone: 0207 520 7520 / 0310
Email: events@corambaaf.org.uk