Labour Pledges New 'Kinship' Rights to Support Children

Patrick Howse - BBC News

Tristram Hunt, shadow education secretary in the UK, will be announcing a series of new measures to support children and families, including offering new “kinship rights” to children in the care of their siblings, grandparents, or other relatives. This measure will give priority in school admissions to children in kinship care. “Mr Hunt will say that the country will only succeed if it supports ‘modern families’ to cope with the ‘pressures of modern life,’” says the article.