The latest findings from Kinship’s annual survey show despite an expansion of the ASF specifically in response to the Covid-19 crisis, 70 per of kinship carers felt they did not receive the support they needed from their local authority in the past year.
The fund’s Covid-19 scheme, which operated between April and June 2020, was set up to provide emergency funding to councils and regional adoption agencies (RAAs).
It was intended to support children who had left care either through adoption or with a special guardianship order (SGO) and their families to meet needs arising from the pandemic.
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