Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund - Commons Urgent Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:50 pm on 2 April 2025.

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Photo of Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top Labour 3:50, 2 April 2025

My Lords, it seems clear that this support is critical for many children, and I am thinking in particular of children in kinship care. The problem is that at the moment the criteria restrict the fund to those who have previously been in the care system. When kinship care really works well is when the case conference enables the wider family to step in immediately, but the child may still be traumatised and indeed other members of the family may need support too. Will the Minister commit to looking at this so that, when the Government are thinking about the criteria for the now very welcome money, they think about those who are not just coming through the care system?