
APPG on Kinship Care
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All Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care. Secretariat: Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp. Contact: [email protected]. Not an official feed of Parliament.
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Our APPG has written to Children’s Minister Janet Daby MP with questions about the Government's plans around financial support for kinship families, including: the kinship financial allowances pilot inequalities in special guardianship allowance provision frg.org.uk/wp-content/upl…⚪️




Today Tessa Munt MP 🔸 urgently asked Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell MP for an update on the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund. Our APPG has heard the current funding uncertainty beyond March 2025 is leaving many kinship families in limbo. Janet Daby MP

Over in the House of Lords, APPG Member Lord Hannay also raised the future of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund with Jacqui Smith, following discussion at yesterday's APPG session.

At #PMQs today APPG Vice Chair Munira Wilson 🇺🇦 raised with Keir Starmer UK Prime Minister the imminent cliff edge in funding for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund.

• Urgent question from Shadow Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Education, Children and Families) Munira Wilson 🇺🇦: "To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will confirm whether the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) will continue."