# Kinship Peer Support

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Kinship](/contract-winners/kinship/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £1,865,851
- Tender value: £900,000
- Award date: 13 December 2021
- Published: 11 January 2022
- Contract start: 4 January 2022
- Contract end: 3 January 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c1bee74b-98ab-40b6-abeb-9e75d9f0b02e-499683
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-5f3c081a-047e-4b66-8d5a-bb1a47898838

## Description

Service to increase the number of local kinship carer support groups across the country\. This is a low cost but high impact way of supporting thousands of kinship carers, and research shows that emotional support from kinship carers in similar positions is the most important form of support need after financial support\.

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- [User Research Data Analysis Tool 2026-2028](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-46ca1686-7613-47db-a922-cbe2568d6334): Department for Education
- [Kinship Support and Advice service](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-86872ff8-c7ca-4bb6-8a19-3246d7a1094a): Leeds City Council
- [Support Services to Kinship Carers](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f60742eb-785a-4404-ad47-666c05eb259c): London Borough of Bromley
- [WP3883 - Kinship Procurement - AWARD](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d3929475-76b5-445f-909e-473abc80b72f): Walsall Council e-Tendering

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c1bee74b-98ab-40b6-abeb-9e75d9f0b02e-499683)