Category: Open Letters

Loading… 12 October 2025 Re: The urgent need to restore the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) Adoptive, kinship and special guardianship families across England continue to feel the significant impact of the cuts made to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund in April this year.  The 60% reduction from £7,500 to £3,000 Read more

On 22nd July 2025, Adoption UK, Coram, Family Rights Group, CVAA, Kinship and Barnardos co-signed an open letter to the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP calling for an urgent review of the changes made to the ASGSF, for confirmation of funding beyond March 2026, and for confirmation that any future Read more

10th August, 17:00: Signature count: 784 Open Letter to Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer Re: Urgent Action Needed on the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) Dear Chancellor Reeves, We write as adoptive and kinship parents and carers whose children’s early-life trauma deeply affects our children’s wellbeing and our family Read more