- Status:
- Closed consultation
- Start date:
- 24 September 2026
- Closing date:
- 11 October 2026
Details
A Kinship Local Offer is a published guide from a council. It explains the support and services available to kinship carers in the local area. (Kinship carers are family members or friends who raise children who cannot live with their parents).
The Kinship Local Offer aims to:
- Make support clear and easy to find
- Help carers understand what help they can get
- Ensure support is fair and consistent across the area
To help us build our own Kinship Local Offer, we asked you to share your views.
Who could share their views
We wanted to hear from kinship carers, including people who care for a child who cannot live with their parents. This may include arrangements such as:
- Special Guardianship Order (SGO)
- Adoption by relatives or friends
- Caring for someone else’s child with no formal order in place
- Child Arrangements Order (CAO) or Residence Order
- Family and Friends Foster Carer
- Private fostering
We also wanted to hear the views of children and young people who live in any of the arrangements listed above.
How you shared your views
Questionnaires for parents/carers and young people (including an easy read version)
Closing date
11 October 2026 (11.59PM).
Further information
If you have any queries about the Kinship Offer consultation, please email haveyoursay@enfield.gov.uk.