Our services in Leeds

If you’re a special guardian

This means our Kinship Family Worker will connect with you when we receive a referral from Leeds Council. We can only give you one-to-one support once we receive a referral.

The support we can give you depends on what you need. We’ll work with you to develop a plan to help you with the things that you feel are most urgent or where you have identified you would like support.

You’ll meet Emma (Kinship Family Worker) and she’ll work with you over 6 months to support your plan.

This could mean help with things like:

• if you’d like support to talk to your school about what your child needs – this could about a special educational needs and disabilities diagnosis
• accessing support from other organisations – if you or your kinship child has experienced bereavement for example
• getting access to therapeutic support through the adoption and special guardianship fund

These discussions are confidential, we are an independent charity.  If a safeguarding concern is raised we will talk you about what that means and our duty of care.

I’m not a special guardian – can you still help?

Yes, at Kinship we are here to support all kinship carers. We’re building a community in Leeds and all kinship carers are welcome to join.

This means that we have a support group which you can join where you can share experiences and chat to other kinship carers. This support group is run and facilitated by Catherine (Kinship Family Worker).

There are also other local peer support groups which are organised and led by kinship carers, which you can also join and they would love to welcome you.

Throughout the year we also run local events and celebrations.

If you’re a kinship carer in Leeds, please get in touch with us at programmes@kinship.org.uk to find out more about our support group and events.