Kinship Support team
Discover how our team can help kinship carers, children and other professionals.
West Sussex has a dedicated Kinship Support team.
The team supports kinship carers who hold Special Guardianship and Child Arrangement Orders. It also supports some families who are caring for a child with an informal arrangement.
Support is available to kinship carers who care for a child from birth up until their 18th birthday.
Watch our video
Kinship Carer, Maidah, shares her experience of the support she has received.
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What we offer
We can help kinship carers by offering:
- a welcome call and welcome pack for new special guardians
- monthly email newsletters
- monthly coffee mornings
- celebration events for kinship families
- support though a Needs Assessment and Support Plan, to identify and provide support
- application to therapeutic support via Adoption Support Fund (where relevant)
- application to the CAMHS Therapeutic Access Panel
- advice for managing family time contact including review meetings and mediation
- signposting, advice and guidance, with some direct support for housing, education and health
- peer mentoring programme
We work with children by offering:
- therapeutic life-story work
- mentoring programme for children in kinship care
We offer consultation and advice for professionals:
- to support private SGO applications
- training, workshops and specialist intervention work with carers