To improve awareness, understanding and support for kinship care. To promote policy and practice which supports more children to live safely in kinship care with family and friends, when they cannot live at home. To amplify the voices and experiences of children and families.
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4 Current APPG Officers
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Melanie Onn
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Joined: 9th October 2024Fisheries
Modernising Employment
Contact Details
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Melanie Onn MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 7185.
Email: melanie.onn.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Jordan Hall, Family Rights Group. Tel: 020 7923 2628
Email: jhall@frg.org.uk
Secretariat:
Family Rights Group acts as the group's secretariat. https://frg.org.uk
Group's Website:
https://frg.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/kinship-care/appg-on-kinship-care
Benefits in Kind
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Family Rights Group
Secretariat From : 10/09/2024 To : 09/09/2025
£22,501
8 Mar 2024
Family Rights Group
Secretariat From : 08/03/2024 To : 07/03/2025
£24,001
8 Mar 2023
Family Rights Group
Secretariat From : 08/03/2023 To : 07/03/2024
£21,001
8 Mar 2022
Family Rights Group
Secretariat From : 08/03/2022 To : 07/03/2023
£24,001
8 Mar 2021
Family Rights Group
Secretariat From : 08/03/2021 To : 07/03/2022
£9,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Kinship Care APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Andrew Gwynne
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour (Co-op) - Gorton and Denton
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 30th May 2024
Tim Loughton
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for East Worthing and Shoreham
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 30th May 2024
Catherine McKinnell
Vice Chair
Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 24th January 2024
Ian Byrne
Vice Chair
Independent - Liverpool West Derby
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 24th January 2024
Miriam Cates
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 15th June 2022
Steven Bonnar
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 15th June 2022
Helen Hayes
Vice Chair
Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 29th December 2021