CVAA support for ‘Action Against ASGSF Changes’ protest march

The day saw many powerful and emotive speeches from MP for Twickenham Munira Wilson, Chair of The POTATO Group Euan Preston, Family Futures CEO and CVAA trustee Jay Vaughan, and many others. Videos of the speeches are well worth watching on the Facebook page here: https://lnkd.in/egpd5DaV

Brilliant advocate and march organiser Clare Solomons had this to say on the day:

It’s not easy for adoptive and kinship families to take action and come together like this. We are often very private and with good reason, but that shows the strength of feeling on this issue. While we may be very private, we are also very passionate. We love our children and we have been forced to learn a whole host of advocacy skills in order to have our children’s needs met in a web of systems which do not make it easy for us. Brutally cutting our access to meaningful therapy also brutally cuts our children’s life chances and we will not stand by and quietly watch those be taken. Today we have shown the government that we will come together, united in our goal to reverse the cuts made to the ASGSF. We will not allow the government to slip these cuts out quietly over an Easter recess and expect us just to go away quietly, grateful for the crumb they have left us.

The petition has now reached over 15,000 signatures and can still be signed here: https://asgsfprotest.com/

CVAA still awaits a response from Janet Daby MP, Minster for Children and Families, following the joint letter we sent on 17^th April alongside charities Adoption UK, Kinship and Coram. We continue to push for a reversal of the cuts and will continue to provide updates on our website and via our BlueSky account: @cvaauk.bsky.social