
In a survey of 490 family and friend carers carried out for Family Rights Group just under half (44 per cent) said they had received no practical help from their local authority.
A significant majority (95 per cent) said there was at least one form of support from councils they had sought in vain, while seven out of 10 respondents rated their council’s support as either poor or very poor.
The survey is part of a wider study of kinship care support carried out by the charity with Oxford University’s Centre for Family Law and Policy.
This included Freedom of Information requests to councils, which found 45 per cent of the 141 councils that responded had not published a family and friends care policy, even though the Family and Friends Care: Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities, published in March last year requires them to do so.
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