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Kinship care

About kinship care

If you are caring for a child who is not your birth child, you are a kinship carer. The arrangement can be temporary or long-term.

Kinship Local Offer

Our Kinship Local Offer sets out how we will help kinship carers, to give children and young people the best possible family experience whatever the...

Private fostering

You must tell the council if you foster privately. Find out about other responsibilities. Information for young people who are privately fostered.

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