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Commons Chamber
Reform of Children’s Social Care - Thu 02 Feb 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) We will unlock the potential of kinship care so that, wherever possible, children who cannot stay with - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) My wife and I are his special guardians, so kinship care is a subject very close to our hearts. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) As she said, it is important to remember that kinship care is built on love. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Family and Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2023 - Mon 23 Jan 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None the means and merits tests differ depending on whether a placement or adoption order is sought within care - Speech Link
2: Baroness Drake (LAB - Life peer) support is remunerated at such low rates that very few solicitors will now offer advice on taking on the care - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Bed Poverty - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (LAB - Halifax) care, which is where family members—often at short notice—take over responsibility for caring for a - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (CON - North East Derbyshire) Of course, ideally in the first instance there would not be a need for such care, but this is life and - Speech Link
3: Catherine McKinnell (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne North) The Department of Health and Social Care should have an interest in children’s health and wellbeing. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Benefit Sanctions - Tue 13 Dec 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Work and Pensions Committee report in 2018 found that some claimant groups, such as single parents, care - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) appointment, despite the fact that she had advised the Department for Work and Pensions that she needed to care - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) On Friday, I met a constituent from Greenfield who is a kinship carer for his grandson. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Asylum and Refugee Policy - Fri 09 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishops - Bishops) Care for the stranger has long been embedded in societies of Christian and Jewish roots and of other - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) Therefore, my third principle is that, to be a good Samaritan, you have to give care, help and so on - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bishops - Bishops) of human structures and ways of life, we are lesser versions of ourselves.Of course, recognising our kinship - Speech Link
4: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) The British state has a duty of care to them. Sadly, in many circumstances, that is not provided. - Speech Link
5: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) That is a breach of our duty of care and of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Independent Review of Children’s Social Care - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) There seems to be a lack of appreciation that foster care, residential care and kinship care are all - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) Thirdly, we must be more supportive of kinship care, because in the broken system we have, kinship care - Speech Link
3: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) in relation to adoption, kinship care and families going through the family courts. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) For example, is there going to be a specific strategy for kinship care? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) in the MacAlister review around kinship care are being carefully considered. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Front-loaded Child Benefit Bill [HL] - Fri 02 Dec 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) During those first two or three years, many parents would like to care for their children themselves - Speech Link
2: None Finally, my Amendment 5 explores what would happen if a child’s care arrangements changed. - Speech Link
3: None If that parent had chosen to take half the child benefit up front, is the plan that the kinship carer - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Devolution of Justice: Wales - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) potential for a better future and because the case for devolution of justice is self-evident for those who care - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) If we want a joined-up magic connection with housing, work and maintaining kinship, family and friendship - Speech Link
3: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) hopefully see through the pandemic, even if it was not glaringly apparent before, that the NHS and social care - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Independent Review of Children’s Social Care - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) funding to help children in kinship care thrive in school. - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) Friend makes a fair point on kinship care. - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) In New Zealand, two thirds of children in the care system are raised with kinship carers. - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Kinship care is an area where the Department could do some productive work. Does my hon. - Speech Link
5: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) I think we need to look at a new kinship care leave entitlement as well, particularly where we have kinship - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Kinship Care - Mon 14 Nov 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) My Lords, the Government are grateful to the APPG for its work and its recent report on kinship care - Speech Link
2: Baroness Eaton (CON - Life peer) Will the Government consider introducing a single legislative definition of kinship care to help ensure - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) , that kinship carers end up being far more effective in their care than the state is. - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) In Liverpool Wavertree, there are 601 children in kinship care and 330 in local authority care. - Speech Link