Kinship Support Service
Once you become a kinship carer in a permanent arrangement (typically a special guardianship order or child arrangement order), you are entitled to access support from your kinship support service.
Our team of dedicated social workers, family workers and welfare rights officers can offer targeted support, general advice, and signposting to local or national support groups and advice.
Some of the support we offer includes:
- Reviewing special guardianship order support plans, or plans for families on other legal orders
- Information and guidance to prepare you for being a kinship carer and to support you once the child is in your care
- Advice regarding kinship allowances, benefits entitlements and education entitlements
- Life Story Work to children growing up in a kinship arrangement
- Assessment for the Adoption Support Fund on behalf of eligible kinship families who would benefit from therapeutic input
- A phoneline and email address during office hours and a dedicated kinship website, alongside out of hours support
- Membership or signposting to kinship support groups through our partners in the voluntary sector.
To find out more please contact our Kinship Support Service on either 01158 041407 or kinshipsupport@nottscc.gov.uk.
Please note, if you have an urgent safeguarding concern this must be referred to Nottinghamshire County Council’s Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) via 0300 500 80 90. If a child is in immediate risk of danger of harm, please call the emergency services on 999.
