Family Law
1. A report by Family Rights Group has found the following:
- Half (49.5%) of siblings groups in local authority care are split up.
- 37% of children in care who have at least one other siblings in care are living with none of their siblings. There is also considerable regional variation, with almost a half split up from any sibling in the East Midlands.
- Only 1% of sibling groups who were all placed together were living in residential care. Government figures show 10% of all children looked after are placed in residential care.
- On average local authorities reported that there were 50 children being raised by connected persons i.e family and friends foster carers. However, the average number of sibling foster carers was just one per authority. Indeed less than 3% of the connected foster carers were sibling carers. In fact most local authorities that provided data reported having no sibling foster carers although Northamptonshire had 14.
2. Resolution, the family law charity has welcomed the majority of the recommendations in the final report of the Financial Remedies Working Group (FRWG), but remains concerned that the report and its recommendations focus largely on the needs of high net worth families, rather than the average family court user.
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