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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.