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Position on Kinship Care
The Child Protection Party believes that:
- Children should remain with their biological family where possible.
- All avenues for family care need to be explored.
- The suitability of kinship care needs to be explored; however, it should not be viewed as a given just because of biological connection. This includes all family types such as same-sex, grandparents etc.
- We believe that family history needs to be considered, especially where intergenerational abuse has been identified.
- It is important not to put children in the care of grandparents or other kinship care who were abusive of the parents or have a history of abuse to children.
- We must be aware that a family member may have contributed to the way a parent was parented.
- We believe that Kinship Carers must have the same training and support as Foster Parents.
- All Kinship Carers need a police check and child safety clearance.