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.

Kinship Care Week 2024

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.

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?#

Upcoming training

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’.

Working with Ukrainian children and families

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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.