Scottish Kinship Care Alliance

The motion

That the Parliament supports the Scottish Kinship Care Alliance, launched by Scottish Kinship Carers to campaign for basic rights and justice for the children in their care; notes that Buttle UK, considered the leading children’s grant-giving charity, has published the second part of its study, Poor Relations? Children and Informal Kinship Carers Speak Out, which highlights the pressing challenges that kinship carers face with little or no statutory support, often finding themselves with less governmental assistance due to the private nature of the arrangements; understands that, in 2001, 1 in every 71 children in Scotland was being brought up by grandparents or other relatives; acknowledges Buttle UK’s claim that informal kinship carers save the taxpayer between £23,500 and £56,000 a year, despite many of these carers finding themselves in poverty, with 31% of these families unable to provide all of the eight basic items that most of us consider necessities, such as heating and winter clothes, and calls on the Scottish Government to recognise what it considers the critical role of kinship carers by improving policy, resources and access to support.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 15

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-06351 by reference.