Supporting Kinship Carers through the Belonging Model®

There are more than 200,000 children and young people living in Kinship Care in the UK, and the number is growing fast.

The needs of Kinship Carers, family members or family friends who care for children when their birth parents cannot, are often overlooked or misunderstood.  Carers themselves can struggle with all the challenges of welcoming the child into their family life and supporting them at home and at school.

This is especially true when the child or young person has experienced trauma from the circumstances which lead to them moving into Kinship Care, as well as the ongoing separation from their parent(s), their previous life, and the challenges of contact.  

Having worked with Kinship Families for many years, Educational Psychologist Dr Rachel King will be introducing her Belonging Model®, created by drawing on practice-based evidence of supporting Carers through the process of enabling their child to feel safe, settle and thrive in their new home, as well as at school.  

Rachel will also highlight some of the resources within her new, accessible and practical book, Kinship Caring (2024), and the accompanying Kinship Family App for Kinship Carers to use with schools.

• Thank you - this was really helpful!
• Thank you, some helpful food for thought
• Excellent
• Thank you, I'm a foster carer and found the therapeutic ways of supporting helpful
• Thank you for a really interesting hour!
• Great info and well presented
• Insightful, thank you
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• Thank you so much, I really enjoyed this
• Thank you, I have ordered the book and have shared it with a local Kinship Carer group
• Thank you, I will encourage my team to look at the recording. We have copied of the book and I will be downloading the app
• Thank you, fascinating as always