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A Child Arrangements Order (CAO) is a legal order where the court decides either where a child will live or who a child can spend time with and for how long.

Kinship foster care is when a friend or family member becomes an official foster carer for a child. This is different to other forms of kinship care as the child is then considered ‘looked after’, and you won’t have parental responsibility.

Informal kinship care is where you are looking after a child who is closely related to you but you do not have parental responsibility for them and they are not ‘looked after’ by the local authority.

Kinship care is when a child lives full-time or most of the time with a relative or friend who isn’t their parent

Children who are cared for on a full-time basis by people who are not direct relatives are in a private fostering arrangement.