Kinship Care

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The Department for Education (DfE) has published statutory guidance on kinship care, setting out how local authorities in England should support children who are cared for by extended family or friends.

The guidance is written for those who work in and with local authority children’s social care and contains information that may be useful to children, young people and families in kinship care arrangements.

The guidance outlines: the definition and role of kinship care; the types of arrangements and processes; and the requirement for each local authority to publish a kinship local offer explaining the support available to children and their carers.

You can find the guidance here