• Abolish Family Courts.  

• End child and youth care homes. 

• Orphans and children of separated parents to go to kinship care (grandparents, brother or sister aged over 18, aunts and uncles, family friends or neighbours).  

• Give same support to kinship carers of children as do to parents. 

• If child has no access to any kinship care, then fostering or adoption through public not privatised admin and support. But focus on kinship care. 

• Fully funded and staffed public NHS mental health for children. 

• Special Needs schools with specialist teachers to help child and kinship carer / parents. 

• From 16 can access social housing of their own, with capped rents. 

• Housing Benefit for full rent from age 16 (but challenge amount til can cap rents).  

• Maintain having a funded advocate to help children convey their wishes and feelings to professionals. 

• Work towards better evidence gathering by police to prove domestic abuse beyond the complainant, who cannot formally complain as in fear of abuser. 

• Work towards better policing of stalking, to prevent abuse and murder. 

• Further kinship care if carer goes to prison. 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION 

You must be approved as a foster carer if the local council has officially asked you to look after a child. 

If the local council didn't ask you to look after the child, you don't have to tell them the child has come to stay with you.

Children in kinship homes have better behavioural and mental health outcomes. One (American) study showed children in kinship care had fewer behavioural problems three years after placement, than children placed into traditional foster care.

Guardianship, as opposed to foster care, is a more permanent solution and is typically used for cases involving relative caregivers? 

Kinship care is usually preferred over foster care, so that a child is able to maintain relationships with extended family in a safe and familiar environment.

That relative or friend is called a 'kinship carer', and it's estimated that around half of kinship carers are grandparents, but many other relatives including brother or sister from age 18, aunts, uncles, as well as family friends and neighbours can also be kinship carers.

Kinship care can reduce the trauma children experience from being placed with strangers, and can help to reinforce their identity and feelings of security. 

Youngsters in kinship care tend to keep in closer contact with brothers and sisters and are more likely to retain weekly contact with their birth mothers.

Child care homes have a high rate of crime once adult. Too many problems, like Pindown and children still doing burglaries (hiding stolen goods under care home beds) and girls involved in prostitution during the day, when out of the care home.