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Are you a
grandparent or Kinship carer that cares for relatives
children full time ?
If the answer is yes ,then this site is
for you. |
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This website is for all grandparents and
kinship carers that take on children full
time:
Our
aims :-
1: To campaign for a change in policies
within Government by highlighting issues that are unique
to grandparents who are full time carers of their
grandchildren.
2:To Campaign for a new type of
allowance that will be paid to grandparents and kinship
carers that are caring for children full time.this
benefit to be on par with the present day foster
allowances
3:To campaign for a full care package to
be put in place on the arrival of a child or
children.
4:To campaign for the rights of
Grandparents to be given equal status as foster carers,
and equal financial recompense
5 To interact with
other grandparent support groups in Great Britain
and maintain contact with other professional groups
and
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We are now on facebook To become a fan use this
link: GAP Facebok |
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Our campaign group
now has over 1170 members. do join our forum and help our
campaign
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Did you know ? |
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As many as 1 in 10 grandparents may be looking after their
grandchildren, they are not paid and the government doesn't
recognise their important role as carers.According to
research by Age Concern: Grandparent carers save the
government approx: four billion pounds per
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This weeks email Thank you to all who have taken time to write
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Just one of the many emails we
have received this week !
Well done everyone at gap but I think that we are to
complacent
what about a protest at the labour conference in
september because -im sick of the way i have been
treated the trouble is were all to
scared---- were scared of the social services
----were scared of the kids
being taken off us ----but its
about time we stop being scared its about
time we stould
up for our rights how dare they treat us they way
they do
---- how dare they not pay us what we are
worth - im 100 percent behind
linda and
gap - i am ready to try and change the
law --------is there anyone else who will
stand beside me im sick of being
a doormat i want ---no i
DEMAND to be treated fairly --
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