Kinship Care Week (7 – 13 October 2024) is an opportunity to raise awareness about the amazing role that kinship carers play in children’s lives and society. There is increased national awareness following the welcome publication of the first-ever National Kinship Care Strategy in December 2023 but we still need to do more.
This year the theme is #ThisIsKinshipCare. CoramBAAF is supporting other organisations in the Kinship Care Alliance to help professionals, families and children understand what kinship care is.
The kinship assessment process: listening to carers
For Kinship Care Week, Ann Horne interviewed Clare Seth about their work on the new Form K (previously known as Form C) due to be launched in January 2025. Clare shares the feedback from focus groups, including the voices of kinship carers, and how they used this to inform the development of Form K.
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Form K is currently being piloted within 10 local authorities across the UK. CoramBAAF hopes the revised form will improve the assessment experience for kinship carers. We hope it will enable relationship-based assessment practice that captures their strengths and vulnerabilities, and what is important to them as a family.
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How virtual school heads should promote the education outcomes of kinship children
Ahead of her presentation at next week’s kinship conference, Jancis Andrew (Head of the Virtual School for Leeds and a trustee for the National Association of Virtual School Heads with a lead for Extended Duties including Kinship) shares the new Kinship Strategy activities that the adapted virtual school head strategic role should include.
Read moreHow do we help people understand what kinship care is?
As Kinship Care Week 2024 begins, Ann Horne, CoramBAAF’s Kinship Consultant, reflects on this year's theme, #ThisIsKinshipCare, highlighting the need for greater understanding and recognition of kinship care.
Read moreMaintaining connections in kinship arrangements
The National Kinship Care Strategy states “if a kinship carer needs help to manage contact with a child’s parents, they could receive training and be offered mediation support”. Ann Horne considers our Members’ Week events, and how we reflected on what resources are available for maintaining connections in kinship arrangements.
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What is kinship care?
Kinship care isn’t yet a recognised term in the Oxford English Dictionary. And maybe it’s not yet a word that trips off the tongue naturally for many people. But once it’s explained it makes absolute sense. That’s why this year, the theme of Kinship Care Week is #ThisIsKinshipCare.
See moreAbout Kinship Care Week 2024
In Kinship's digital resource packs, you’ll find the guides, activities and promotional materials to help raise awareness of #KinshipCareWeek.
#ThisIsKinshipCare
This year the theme of Kinship Care Week is #ThisIsKinshipCare. CoramBAAF is supporting other organisations in the Kinship Care Alliance to help professionals, families and children understand what kinship care is.
Find out moreKinship care resources for schools
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Lesson and assembly plans
Coram Life Education's new Kinship Care Resources are now available! Co-produced by Coram Life Education, Coram BAAF and the Kinship Care Alliance, these resources introduce and explore the important subject of kinship care. The resources include assembly and lesson plans with the intention that they are shared with schools so that they can take part in Kinship Care Week (7 to 13 October 2024). However, we still encourage schools to use the resources whenever possible to raise awareness about kinship care.
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Kinship, the leading kinship care charity in England and Wales, have published their #ThisIsKinshipCare animation. Written and recorded by kinship carers, the film speaks to the joy, the warmth, the humour, the love, as well as the challenges of being a kinship family.
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In celebration of Kinship Care Week, get this kinship care bundle for £25 throughout October!
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Deal of the Month
We have created a bundle that includes our 'Undertaking a connected person/family and friends assessment' guide, along with multiple copies of two of our Advice Notes that relate to kinship care.
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Kinship Care Practice Forum
Discuss developing areas of policy and share views at our Kinship Care Practice Forum.
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