National Kinship Care Strategy: Implications for social workers and local authorities

The first-ever National Kinship Care Strategy has been published. This session aims to explore the implications of the strategy on social work with kinship families and the impact it has on local authority planning, practice and workforce.

Featuring works by artists such as Grayson Perry, Joshua Reynolds, Tracey Emin, Chantal Joffe, Paula Rego, Lucian Freud and Alice Neel, the exhibition explores our changing understanding of ‘family’ in the last 50 years and considers what it means today.

Image credit: Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait, ‘The Braddyll Family’ (detail), 1789. Photograph © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

Coram Society and In Between Lines are pleased to present this free online event marking the close of Black History Month 2023. This year's event centres on the voices of those that have been missing from the historical record, as well as the experience of our speakers and care experienced young people in the Voices through Time: The Story of Care programme.

Equipping social workers to challenge their child’s school to ensure better outcomes, particularly in professional PEP meetings. Uphold a child or young person’s legal rights and ensure that they are fairly treated.

Many children cared for by adopters , foster carers, and kinship carers have additional health needs. We will explore how social workers can assess and support potential parents and carers in these circumstances.