Blogs
Here are some blog posts written by our consultants about kinship care:
Kinship Care Week 2–8 October 2023 #DoOneThing | 2 October 2023
Learning from Windrush: a kinship care context | 26 September 2023
Does the new implementation strategy go far enough for kinship carers and their families? | 28 February 2023
Who is looking after the ‘unseen children’? | 6 January 2023
Kinship launch their #ValueOurLove campaign | 1 November 2022
Kinship Care Week 2022: So much still needs to change | 12 October 2022
Square Peg in a Round Hole – Part 2 – where does kinship social work practice fit? | 5 October 2022
Square peg in a round hole – Part 1 – Unlawful ‘placements’ | 9 August 2022
Event recordings
Previously, our consultants have delivered sessions dedicated to issues relating to kinship care such as:
What matters to children living in kinship care | 7 September 2023
The wellbeing of children in care - comparing those in kinship and unrelated foster care | 15 June 2023
Bringing up your Brothers and Sisters - Learning from Sibling Kinship Carers | 4 May 2023
An introduction to working with black kinship care families | 15 March 2023
Kinship care support | 17 January 2023
Unlocking the potential of family networks - joint event held in partnership with Research In Practice | 5 October 2022
Unlawful placements - square peg in a round hole | 12 July 2022
Supporting kinship care – Messages from two decades of UK research | 24 February 2022
Downloads
- Top ten tips for social workers Working with Ukrainian children
- FAQs: Supporting kinship carers of Ukrainian refugee children
- CoramBAAF Statement Regarding the relaunch of the Public Law Outline: The return of 26 weeks and what this means for the assessment of prospective kinship carers
Publications
Our most recent publication that relates to kinship care is ‘Undertaking a Connected Person/Kinship Assessment in Wales’. In 2020/21, about 220 special guardianship orders were made in relation to children in the care system in Wales, and over one-fifth of foster placements were with connected/kinship carers. Undertaking a Connected Person/Kinship Assessment is designed to help social workers in Wales to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.
Our other publications include:
Undertaking a connected person/family and friends assessment (England)
Practice Note 75: Financial Support for Special Guardians (England)
Practice Note 74: Supporting Special Guardians to make Family Arrangements in the Event of a Health Emergency or Accident (PDF download for Members only)
Books for children in kinship care: