Kinship care

Page last updated: 26 August 2025

We are in the process of reviewing and developing our Local Offer to Kinship Carers and we would like your help. Your experiences as Kinship Carers and your feedback will really help shape our Offer.

The Kinship Local Offer is a new legal duty on local authorities to set out the support available in their area to children and their Kinship Carers. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill currently going through Parliament introduced the new duty.

There are several ways for you to be involved in developing the Trust’s Offer: 

• Complete our Trust Kinship Survey.
  Please CLICK HERE to complete the survey.
   
• Attend a Trust Kinship consultation session in October 2025 as part of Kinship Care Week 2025 (6-12 October).
  Please CLICK HERE to register to attend a consultation session
   
• Speak to your allocated worker if you already have one.

• Contact the Trust SGO and Private Fostering Support Team at: SGOandPrivateFosteringSupportTeam@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk

Whilst we review and further develop our Trust Kinship Local Offer, we would like to share kinship information, and details of how to access kinship support. 

Find out more (click on the links)

What is Kinship Care?
Different types of Kinship Care and what they mean
Support for Kinship Carers
Kinship Support Groups