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Recommendation 17
17
Deferred
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Special guardians need time and support to help their often highly vulnerable children to settle...
Recommendation
Special guardians need time and support to help their often highly vulnerable children to settle into their new kinship families in the same way that adoptive and other parents do. They should not be treated any differently to any other parent in this respect. A future review is welcome. As part of that review, the Government should consider whether entitlements and benefits for parental leave and pay can be extended to special guardians.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government states it has consulted on reforming the parental leave and pay system and will respond in due course, deferring a decision on extending entitlements to special guardians.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government has consulted on high level options to reform our system of Parental Leave and Pay and will respond in due course. In the meantime, we will continue to engage with stakeholders such as Adoption UK to understand how we can ensure our family entitlements are fit for purpose.
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