Supporting effective practice with kinship families - Frontline Briefings (2026)
Introduction
These briefings explore how practitioners can work alongside kinship families to support children to remain safely within their wider family networks where possible. They focus on assessing and supporting potential kinship carers from the earliest stages, and supporting children and families as their needs change over time. Together, they explore how relationship-focused, strengths-based practice can support safe, stable and nurturing kinship arrangements
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Relationships and effective direct work | Communication | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | Child and family assessment | Promote and govern excellent practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Shaping and influencing the practice system | Confident analysis and decision-making | Purposeful and effective social work | Lead and govern excellent practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Support effective decision-making | Designing a system to support effective practice
CQC - Responsive | Effective | Caring
PCF - Knowledge | Critical reflection and analysis | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Diversity and equality
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