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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 child’s legal status, needs and circumstances.
About kinship carers
Kinship carers can be:
- a close relative of the child
- a close relative of the child’s maternal or paternal sibling
- someone who was formerly the child’s step-parent or in a cohabiting relationship with the child’s parent
- a close friend of the child, or of the child’s parent(s)
- a close friend of the child’s close relative
- someone with a prior connection to the child who does not fall within one of the categories above, for example a teacher, youth worker, childminder or former foster carer