Newcastle Kinship Team

Newcastle Kinship Team

Newcastle City Council has a specialist Kinship Team:  

Our team includes:

  • Team manager
  • Senior Social Work Practitioner 
  • 8 Social Workers 
  • 3 Resource Workers

We support:

  • Potential kinship carers
  • New kinship carers
  • Kinship foster carers
  • Carers with a Kinship Residence Orders (RO)
  • Carers with a Kinship Child Arrangements Orders (CAO)
  • Carers with a Special Guardianship Order (SGO) 
  • Informal kinship carers
Team of women in office

Our social workers carry out assessments and offer support when needed.

For kinship children, support and services are normally offered through the Newcastle Families First Team 

Contact the Kinship Team

General enquiries email: kinship@newcastle.gov.uk (non-urgent matters only).

For urgent matters and professional enquiries please email here.

Or call us on 0191 277 2430 and ask for the Kinship Duty Worker.  

Normal office hours operate Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm (except bank holidays). 

For urgent out of hours service call the Emergency Duty Team on 0191 277 7878.

Next page: Kinship Zone

Information from https://childrenandfamiliesnewcastle.org.uk/
Printed on September 30th 2026
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