Member

This is particularly true in the context of the Government’s frustrating decision to reduce the level of support available to kinship families through the adoption and special guardianship support fund. The Bill suggests that the local offer should include signposting to services relating to health and well-being, and information about the ASGSF is the only specific content included in the therapeutic support section of information on the kinship local offer within kinship care statutory guidance. As such, the very support which local authorities are expected to signpost to is now being eroded.