Melanie Onn

Melanie Onn

Labour — Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes

Speaking in the House of Commons on 20 October 2026

Debate

Kinship Carers: Statutory Paid Employment Leave

Contribution

Yes, my hon. Friend is right. The concern for kinship carers is that they either have to give up work voluntarily or fall foul of their employer’s terms and conditions merely by taking on the moral duty of caring for a child. Introducing statutory paid employment leave for kinship carers would send a signal in society that we recognise the importance of family arrangements and that those family arrangements extend not just to birth parents, adoptive parents or foster parents, but to kinship families as well.

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