Children’s care campaigners have welcomed the government’s decision to introduce measures to give looked-after children the legal right to maintain contact with siblings. The measures will be introduced through an amendment tabled by the government to the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill that would give children in the care system the legal right to ‘reasonable contact’. The move has been welcomed by charities Family Rights Group, which campaigned for 13 years for the change, and Become, which supported the campaign. Read more.
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