Speaking at Coram Children's Legal Centre, Sir James Munby called on the government to provide more funding for kinship carers.
Sir James branded the financial, professional and emotional support available to kinship carers “seriously inadequate” and “in stark comparison to the support available to foster carers and adoptive parents”.
He said: “There is an intractable problem … providing the financial and other support that kinship carers so desperately need. Substantial increases are essential in the funding made available by central government to local authorities, which are under-resourced and gravely over-stretched.”
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