The All Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care held an inquiry into access to legal aid for kinship carers and potential kinship carers.
The inquiry, launched in January 2022, heard from hundreds of kinship carers across England and Wales. It also took evidence from leading legal practitioners and organisations in child and family law, and from non-for-profit advice services.
In May 2022 the APPG published its findings and recommendations in a new report: ‘Lost in the legal labyrinth: How a lack of legal aid and advice is undermining kinship care’.
The report shines a spotlight on, and sets out proposals for addressing, the challenges carers and prospective carers face in stepping forward and navigating the family justice system, in England and Wales, to support the children they are raising to thrive.