About the service
What are you going to see?
We’re building on the communities of peer support groups already set up by kinship carers across England.
Kinship carers told us they wanted more support, more access to expert advice and information and more opportunities to connect with each other.
What we’re doing is making sure that where there is little, or no support at the moment, we’re helping kinship carers to build new communities and relationships.
We’ll be:
- Talking with kinship carers to understand their experiences and what they want to see
- Developing an online chat, where kinship carers can reach out to trained kinship carer volunteers to get emotional support
- Setting up a dedicated microsite – one place where kinship carers can find a support group, and access one-to-one support and free group workshops
- Working with experts to develop free workshops on themes like understanding trauma or managing contact
- Creating an e-Learning platform, open to everyone, where you can find information about how you can set up your own peer support group
As we do this, we’ll have a brilliant team on the ground, working with kinship carers to develop and set up their groups. They’ll be providing training and support and helping established groups to access our free themed workshops.
And we’ll help to bridge relationships between kinship carers and local authority teams, to build trust and to help kinship carers get the support they need.