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- Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:50 pm
- Forum: Natter and chatter
- Topic: Please sign & share petition so all kinship carers households are exempt for 2 child restriction on tax credits
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6855
Please sign & share petition so all kinship carers households are exempt for 2 child restriction on tax credits
Please sign and share this petition which calls for all kinship care households to be made exempt from the 2 child restriction on child tax credit. Our lobbying led to the Government agreeing, during the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, that all kinship carers taking on a kin child would be able to cla...
- Thu May 18, 2017 1:03 pm
- Forum: Getting your voice heard
- Topic: 2017 General Election - elobby your candidates about family & friends care
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8703
2017 General Election - elobby your candidates about family & friends care
Hi Family Rights Group on behalf of the Kinship Care Alliance has launched the 2017 Agenda for Action. We have set up a facility that enables you all to elobby your local parliamentary candidates to raise awareness about kinship care & to ask them to back our campaign so that: - Children who can...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:01 am
- Forum: General/Archive
- Topic: Has your LA ceased paying SGO or RO allowances?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4816
Has your LA ceased paying SGO or RO allowances?
We would be interested to hear from any kinship carer or practitioner who has been told that the local authority has issued a blanket policy of ceasing to pay special guardianship order or residence order allowances. We have been contacted by a few carers who have heard told this second hand and we ...
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:17 pm
- Forum: Natter and chatter
- Topic: Friends carers -willing to be interviewed by nat newspaper?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3789
Friends carers -willing to be interviewed by nat newspaper?
Hi - a national broadsheet newspaper wishes to run a sympathetic article about children who are raised by friends due to parental bereavement or abuse etc - including the positives and the hurdles faced. They will want to interview the carer and the child. Would anyone in this situation be intereste...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:10 am
- Forum: General/Archive
- Topic: All Party Parliamentary Group - on kinship next wed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4088
All Party Parliamentary Group - on kinship next wed
Hi There next All Party Parliamentary Group for Looked-After Children and Care Leavers will be holding a session on kinship care on Wednesday 13th June from 17.00-19.00 at Portcullis House in Westminster. This session will provide a great opportunity for young people and those who care for them to c...
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:41 pm
- Forum: Natter and chatter
- Topic: Do you live in London - please fill in our survey
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4005
Do you live in London - please fill in our survey
Hi There is a much higher rate of children living in family and friends care in London, than the rest of the UK. But few London boroughs run local family and friends care support groups and little research has been undertaken of the needs of the children and carers. So if you are a family and friend...
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:47 pm
- Forum: General/Archive
- Topic: Urgent - legal aid changes - cases needed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4196
Urgent - legal aid changes - cases needed
Family Rights Group on behalf of the Kinship Care Alliance is urgently lobbying Parliament to prevent a change in the law which will mean that family & friends carers will not be able to apply for legal aid a) when applying for a residence/special guardianship order or b) defending against a par...
- Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:48 pm
- Forum: General/Archive
- Topic: Getting in the press
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3687
Getting in the press
Hi As many of you know, Family Rights Group is publishing 4 new research reports on family and friends care. The press launch date is the 27th March. There is likely to be lots of press interest and of course the best and most powerful people to talk to the media are family and friends carers. So wo...
- Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:54 am
- Forum: Natter and chatter
- Topic: Are you willing to talk to the media?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3645
Are you willing to talk to the media?
Hi As many of you know, Family Rights Group is publishing 4 new research reports on family and friends care. The press launch date is the 27th March. There is likely to be lots of press interest and of course the best and most powerful people to talk to the media are family and friends carers. So wo...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:03 pm
- Forum: Natter and chatter
- Topic: Please help - carer to tell their story to social workers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5850
Re: Please help - carer to tell their story to social worker
Many thanks for your responses and wise thoughts. I've managed to rope in a family and friends carer, but David Roth, our policy adviser has been thinking about ways of capturing in print carers' powerful stories and experiences - so await to hear more in due course.