Our services in Nottinghamshire

How we can support you

If you’re a special guardian this means our Kinship Reach Family Worker will connect with you when we receive a referral from Nottinghamshire 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 mini plan to help you with the things that you feel are most urgent or where you have identified you would like support.

We’ll usually work with you over 3 months and you can expect to have about 6 phone calls or video calls depending on what you’d prefer.

You’ll meet Theresa (our Kinship Family Worker), and she can help you 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
• joining a peer support group
• getting access to therapeutic support through the adoption and special guardianship fund
• accessing our advice service and other services

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 have an online 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 Beth.

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

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