About the new standard of kinship care assessment

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By Ann Horne, kinship care consultant, CoramBAAF
There are an estimated 132,800 children living in kinship care in England (Kinship and Centre for Care, 2025).
In many such cases, family members step in to care for a child without the involvement of social workers.
However, a growing proportion of children in care – 16% in 2024, up from 13% in 2018 – are living with kinship fost