Kinship care is a term used to describe a situation whereby a child or children are being cared for by another member of their family in a situations where the birth parent/ parents are unable to do so. There are a number of reasons why children may need to be cared for by kin on a formal or informal basis. The reasons a child may need to be cared for by kin include poor physical or mental health, homelessness, and other issues that can lead to parental incapacity. The child may be at risk of or may have experienced abuse or neglect (Delapp and Mann, 2019). A child may also be cared for by kin where a parent/s has died. Formal kinship arrangements refer to when a family member takes on the care of a child by means of a formal arrangement. A formal arrangement may occur where there is a child protection concern, and a formal care arrangement is made with a child protection agency to allow a relative to become a foster carer for the child (O’Brien, 2015). Apart from some cases of emergency, relatives would have to be assessed and become a registered foster carer before they could take over care of the child. Informal kinship care refers to an arrangement whereby the parent/s of a child/children have a private agreement with a family member or close friend to take over parental responsibility for a child should the parent/s die or become unable to care for their child long term, this is seen as a private family arrangement (PFA).