Kinship carers can’t pay with love: tell Rachel Reeves to give them financial support

When a kinship carer steps up to raise a family or friends' child, they do it with love. But love alone is not enough to pay for the extra costs they need to cover to raise a child: food, school uniform and more.

Unlike foster carers, most kinship carers don’t get the financial support they need. We know that kinship carers are struggling to afford the essentials. This is unfair.

Kinship carers step up to provide love and stability for more than 132,000 children in England when they need it most. They contribute billions to the economy and keep children out of the care system.

Can you email Chancellor Rachel Reeves and call on her to give all kinship carers the financial support they need to provide for their families?

We’ve written a template email you can send to Rachel Reeves and you can add your own experiences if you wish. Simply fill in the form below.

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Are you a kinship carer?

A kinship carer is a family member or friend who steps up to raise a child when they can't live with their birth parents. This includes family and friends foster carers, those with a special guardianship order (SGO) or child arrangements order (CAO), as well as informal kinship carers with no legal order. Kinship carers are sometimes referred to as a family and friends carer or a connected carer.

Yes, I'm a kinship carer

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We’re stepping up the fight to get kinship carers and their children the support they urgently need.
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