Local authorities urgently need to improve the contact looked-after children have with their siblings, a meeting of the associate parliamentary group for looked-after children and care leavers has heard.
At its meeting last week, the group heard from children and young people who said their right to see their siblings is not being met.
Delma Hughes, founder of Siblingstogether, which runs holiday camps for looked-after children to spend time with their siblings, said: "Contact between separated siblings does not always happen. Where it does it is not always good enough. We need to make sure social services are checking siblings are kept together wherever possible and where not, contact arrangements are made."
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