Same Love, Same Leave is a campaign by Family Rights Group to introduce a right to paid employment leave and protection for kinship carers.
Half of kinship carers have to give up their jobs to provide care for their children, many of whom have complex needs. With so many losing out on needed income, many kinship carers become dependent on welfare benefits. It’s no wonder that 3 out of 4 kinship carers say becoming a kinship carer has caused them severe financial hardship.
Like adopters, kinship carers provide love and support to children who cannot remain at home. Yet their workplace rights differ, and kinship families suffer as a result. This is why kinship carers, who often step up in times of crisis and support a child to remain safely in their family, need the right to paid employment leave and protection akin to adoption leave. A policy supported by 8 in 10 of the public when polled.