Kinship care

Our kinship care consultants develop a range of practice notes, briefings and other resources to support our members in special guardianship, private fostering, kinship foster care and other care plans involving family members and friends. They also support the exchange of ideas and good practice at our practice forums.

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Upcoming training and events

We are a leading provider of specialist training for social workers, practitioners, adopters, foster carers, kinship carers and all professionals associated with children's social care.

Private Fostering Awareness Day

On the 6 November, we hosted our second Private Fostering Awareness Day! A child who is cared for by someone who is not a close relative for more than 28 days is living in a private fostering arrangement. All local authorities have a responsibility to raise awareness of private fostering in their area.

Latest blogs and updates

• Kinship Care Week: How do we help people understand what kinship care is?
• Tell us about private fostering in your area
• Kinship care matters – the National Kinship Care Strategy
• Reflections on care planning in the kinship context
• Kinship Care Week 2–8 October 2023 #DoOneThing
• Learning from Windrush: a kinship care context
• New Form K (kinship assessment) in the pipeline
• Does the new implementation strategy go far enough for kinship carers and their families?

Incorporating what matters to children into practice with kinship care

We are delighted to be able to publish Dr Paul Shuttleworth's latest work, ‘Incorporating what matters to children into practice with kinship care: Listen, Understand, Do’.

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Our multidisciplinary groups and provide a platform to our members so we can advocate on their behalf to Government, and ensure that their voices are heard in the development of legislation, policy and practice.