Tell your MP about impact of cuts to funding for therapy for children in kinship care

The government have cut the funding each child in kinship care receives for vital trauma therapy.

The changes to the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) mean, for the children that are eligible, they will get significantly less therapeutic support over the coming year. This will have a huge impact on their mental health – and impact the whole kinship family.

Many children in kinship care have suffered trauma and our research found that over half of kinship carers say the children they care for currently have mental health difficulties.

We need MPs to understand the impact these reductions in therapy are going to have on kinship families – and put pressure on the government to reconsider making these changes.

Can you email your MP about the changes to the ASGSF?

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

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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), informal kinship carers with no legal order, family and friends carers or connected carers.

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