Kinship care refers to the arrangement in which a child is raised by a relative or a close family friend instead of their birth parents. It implies that the child is living with someone who has a familial relationship or a strong bond that helps provide them with love, support, and a stable home.
Full definition
Local authorities should recognise and meet the needs of children
in kinship care by providing practical, emotional and financial support and Government needs to ensure there is funding to achieve this.
Both of them are keen to look after the 10 year old but wondering whether they would be considered as too young to be considered
for kinship care?
We're delighted to announce our new
kinship care support service for local authorities is now available to be commissioned.
Children are considered to be in
informal kinship care if they are not living with a parent or foster parent and are not living independently.
This is different to other forms of
kinship care as the child is then considered «looked after», and you won't have parental responsibility.
There are costs in developing an effective
kinship care service in which children and their kinship carers get the help they need.
About 65 percent of the youth we serve live with foster families, and 35 percent are being cared for by relatives in
kinship care arrangements that we support in collaboration with other agencies.
Read our tips on how to speak to school
about kinship care, to get the right support for your children.
When that is not possible, best practice suggests that children should be placed with relatives
through kinship care.
We welcomed over 100 kinship carers, professionals, academics and charity representatives to our national
kinship care conference last week.
22 % of
kinship care households had three or more children aged 18 or under, 63 % of these households currently receive child tax credit.
Children who have experienced trauma benefit
from kinship care, because the relationships keep them connected to their family, community and culture; and support their healing from trauma.
We talk about the importance of the family in care cases;
kinship care options, family group conferences.
We develop projects of national significance, and pioneer research
into kinship care, such as the experiences of sibling carers.
While kinship care is often a rewarding experience for both the child and their relative caregiver it can also come with many challenges.
Only foster carers are entitled to an allowance to cover the cost of raising a child, and research has shown a clear link
between kinship care and deprivation.
Different types of
kinship care bring different rights, responsibilities and opportunities for support.
As such, the data can provide important indications of the scale and role
kinship care plays for children who are not in parental care.
It is important to understand the difference between an
informal kinship care arrangement and that of an approved kinship foster placement.
The program was updated in 2011 to include information on trauma and current federal guidelines
for kinship care.
This literature review examines the recent literature
on kinship care and summarizes findings.
The articles aim to improve the well - being and safety of children
in kinship care while supporting their providers.
The literature refers to three general types
of kinship care informal voluntary and informal.
Buttle UK is also very active in its support of kinship carers in Scotland and the Casework Manager is a Special Adviser to the Scottish
Kinship Care Alliance.
Cultural Considerations Futures Without Violence (2016) Encourages child welfare and other professionals to consider the unique needs of families, including
kinship care families, and provide culturally specific responses to violence.
State of Delaware
Kinship Care Program Help Line 800-464-4357 also the state operates the Delaware Kinship Navigator Program LINK
If you are interested in becoming a foster parent, please call the Foster
Kinship Care Education program at (530) 574-1964.
Buttle UK is delighted to be working in partnership
with Kinship Care Northern Ireland, and through this to have developed and launched the Kinnections project.
Recognized for its leadership and expertise in child welfare — especially adoption from foster care — NACAC's board of directors includes adoptive, foster, and
kinship care parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees and people who were in foster care, researchers, and other advocates who have a wealth of experience.
I have been attending the Grandparents Plus
kinship care professionals group for six years, and it has been an invaluable means of sharing information and best practice with colleagues in other local authorities.
Informal kinship care arrangements have created an invisible population who have little contact with local authorities.
Kinship Care Connection (KCC) has been reviewed by the CEBC in the area of: Kinship Caregiver Support Programs, but lacks the necessary research evidence to be given a Scientific Rating.
The following resources offer access to training materials and curricula for administrators, supervisors, and caseworkers
providing kinship care services to children and families.
Research points out that
kinship care placements are more stable than non-kinship placements (Sallnnas et al., 2004; Webster et al., 2000).
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