Family Rights Group joined the Board in 2018 when the remit of the then Adoption Leadership Board was expanded to include children who left the care system on a special guardianship order. While shining a welcome light on the challenges faced by special guardians and the children they were raising, the broader kinship care community has remained largely overlooked and undervalued. As Cathy Ashley, Family Rights Group chief executive, said, special guardianship “frustratingly always felt like a late add-on to a board that was constituted around adoption”. The Board’s closure provides an opportunity to refocus attention on how kinship care in all its forms can be championed across the system.
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