Kinship reach

Nottinghamshire County Council has commissioned Kinship Reach to provide independent virtual support to our kinship families.

Common issues Kinship Reach can support with include:

• Emotional distress, often around family breakdown – bereavement, imprisonment, mental health of birth parents
• Isolation & loneliness
• Emotional & physical exhaustion: overwhelmed with responsibility but fearful of losing children if social worker involved, special guardianship order at breakdown point
• Financial crisis, particularly around stopping work to become a kinship carer, no special guardianship allowance
• Health concerns
• Managing relationships with family members – particularly around contact
• Housing concerns – unsuitable housing for taking on kinship role
• Lack of digital skills
• Children’s behaviour & wellbeing, including answering difficult questions about life story

To access Kinship Reach or discover more contact the Kinship Support Service for a referral, call 01158 041407 or email kinshipsupport@nottscc.gov.uk

After referral your conversations with Kinship will remain private unless you choose to disclose them to us, or a previously unidentified safeguarding risk is identified.