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In the Government’s White Paper Care Matters: Time for Change the government recognises the key role played by family and friends carers in raising children who would otherwise be in local authority care. However, research demonstrates that these carers are likely to be experiencing financial hardship.

At the moment only family and friends carers who been approved as foster carers are entitled to financial support. For all others, including those on the brink of care, it is at the discretion of individual local authorities. There is evidence of wide variation, leading to a postcode lottery and financial hardship for many carers and the children they are raising.

We propose that a national non-means tested allowance, to cover the real costs of raising a child, should be paid to family or friends who are raising a child for more than 28 days continuously, where there is judicial or professional evidence that the parent is unable to care for the child.

Current signatories

David Roth, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Andrew Jones
• Thomas Tseco
• Robin Derriman
• Lynn Evans
• Andrew Canty
• Jane French
• Linda Suffling
• Graham Parker
• Paul Woods
• Peter Evans
• Caroline Felton
• E Gambrell
• anne bray
• Jennifer Cracknell
• Kate and Steve Ames
• Andrew Constantine
• sandra ingham
• Pearl Robb
• Liz Brazier
• Viv Jolly
• Martin and Veda Harrison
• Alison Cornelly
• William Cornelly
• K Moorby
• jean powell
• DEENA HOSTETTLER
• justin easton
• mairi mackechnie
• Emily Brookes
• ALAN BAILEY
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
• Roger Gordon Allen
• Elaine Hartless
• Ann Spencer
• HANNAH FINAN
• Jo Jacques
• Hilary Derriman
• Joan Hunt
• Bonnie
• Helen Winterburn
• michaela parker
• christina small
• craig denton
• Janice Quilter
• Stella Price
• Norma Palmer
• patricia marriott
• john r marriott
• Joseph McCabe
• David Bedford
• david spencer
• Steve Aynsley - petitions.pm.gov.uk/parentslone
• Eleanor Lutman
• Kelli Eboji
• deanna edwards
• Sally Deignan
• yvonne mckechnie
• joy howard
• Alan S. Bannon
• Gavin Evenhuis
• Claire Cooper
• Garry Davis
• julian wootton
• Christine Tew
• liz hope
• Anita McAloren
• Laura Marsh
• Victoria Johansen
• Sarah Samuels
• nina brierley
• Pam Ledward
• Lorraine Clinch
• Max Hardisty
• Kate Muir
• Anne Fraser
• Laura White
• Karon Jennings
• Melissa Jennings
• Sarah Grube
• Andy Remington
• Barbara O'Rourke
• Rachel Volpe
• valerie tromans
• Patricia Massey
• Lidia Bojczuk
• tina astley
• Debbie Bridgett
• Jenny Hannant
• Ann Adams
• craig knowles
• Abby Leese
• Andrina Jones
• E.A.Stansbury
• CAROL SPENCER
• Colin Dearmer
• Eunice Lawton
• Lynn Spencer
• Elizabeth Monck
• Chris Lamberton
• Chris McEvoy
• Pam North
• T.J.Lightfoot
• Teresa Seymour
• Jack Avison
• Andrea Spark
• Jenny Spencer
• Tina Haynes
• Andrew Wragg
• Marion Anderson
• Clio Whittaker
• Apala Chowdhury
• Katharina Turner
• William Lewis
• Polly Whittaker
• C Success
• Mandy Fowler
• nick wusteman
• Sonia Jackson
• Angela Price
• Glen Jarvis
• Ray Heywood
• John Taylor
• daniel evans
• Elwyn Owens
• S Woodward
• Mary Lane
• Katherine Juniper
• deirdre baker
• Vivian Paul Horswill
• Elizabeth Mary Horswill
• Judy Parchment
• J W Howard
• Jannette Lord
• Zena Butler
• Elizabeth McEwan
• Robert McEwan
• Kim McEwan
• Rachel Quinn
• Carmel Harkness
• Jane Roth
• Diane Cook
• Theresa Dickinson
• Landa Udennis
• Felicity Fletcher
• Kath Spowage
• Amy Parmiter
• Yvonne Jones
• James M Holland
• gina houghton
• Sandra Roth
• Diana Leary
• Keith Fletcher
• Sean Davitt
• jean holmes
• Karen Tallant
• Daniel Howard
• Stephen Hook
• Paul Owens
• yvonne ramsay
• kinsfolk carers edinburgh
• myra batley
• Debbie Wootton
• Samantha Roberts
• susan scarlett
• Cressida Evans
• Tessa
• lyndsey Kiernan
• Sonya Grande
• julia chesterman
• Sharon Williams
• Peter Harris
• David Shields
• Lynn Chesterman
• Karen Steele
• Mrs C. James-Richards
• jacqueline Sampson
• zoe walters
• Mark Ditton(petitions.pm.gov.uk/carerscounciltax)
• Auxilia (petitions.pm.gov.uk/SENCHILDREN)
• sheena prentice
• kevin hill
• Brenda & David Wilkins
• Mary Womersley
• Sean Haresnape
• Julie Shepherd
• David Heathcote
• tina gray
• a Connelly
• Ellen Ashton
• Margaret Warwick
• sonia marshall
• fifi02
• jan patterson
• bob broad
• graham keating
• MARIA HAMILTON
• Valerie Greenfield
• Mike Tait
• Nick Thayre
• Anne Barlow
• Nicky Thomson
• Tina O'Flaherty
• Richard Sutton
• Mel Perkins
• Rosa Sanderson
• Sue Anderson
• janet croston
• Kevin Williams
• heather johnson
• Pippa Rankin
• caroline fitzgerald
• Maxine Yearwood-Bailey
• Tabinda Bleher
• carol murray
• Michelle Wade
• Emma Rodriguez
• michael beach
• Mary Butler
• Carlos Williams
• Sheila Kempster
• Lyn Jeffrey
• shelley nash
• Patricia Hunter
• Ron Little
• Stephen Perkins
• Debi Morgan
• Carole Denny
• Christopher Stansell
• J Butler
• Hilary Sparling
• Stella Hewitt
• Catherine Carmichael
• Anna Stokes
• Clare Ely
• Andrea Gill
• Helen Stapleton
• kate farmer
• Darren Hedges
• Penny Cadman
• Jan Smith
• Louise Baker
• Elaine Farmer
• mary pope
• Jean Garlick
• Jo Baker
• Linda Nunn
• christine stapleton
• Jill Coleman
• Raymond Harding
• Hilary Saunders
• Gillian Macdonald
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• Mandy Dams
• Alison Hayward
• Helen Rugg
• Felicity Hunt
• amy wall
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• Jackie Ringer
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• Susan Veck
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• Saija Westerlund
• Leonie Johnston
• Lauren Butler
• BARBARA JARMAN
• Jennifer Brett
• Mark innes
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• Jane Milne
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• shirely johnston
• Amy Gedling
• Dee AolanJi
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• stephen porter
• barry turner
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• Sue Briggs
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• Ruby Shah
• Alison Tarrant
• Marion Carolan
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• Joanne Wheeler
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• GLENDA SMITH
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