How to Support Kinship Care: Lessons Learnt from Around the World

Family for Every Child

This guidance is the first ever global, practitioner-informed guidance on how to support kinship care. The guidance is aimed at policymakers and programme managers working to improve the care of children.

Children who cannot be looked after by their parents often live with relatives or friends of the family. This care is known as kinship care. Kinship care is acknowledged as the first form of care that should be explored for children outside of parental care. It is widely used across the world. However, it is poorly supported in many countries.

This guidance explains why supporting kinship care is so important and provides principles of good practice and lessons learnt from across the world. 

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