Kinship carer allowance pilot invite local authorities to apply for funding
Local authorities in England and Wales have been invited to be part of a pilot to provide financial support to relatives or friends who step in to raise children when their parents cannot The Kinship Financial Allowance pilot will provide a weekly non-means tested financial allowance which will be paid at a rate equivalent to […]
Reasserting the Legal Test for Intermediaries in Family Proceedings: M (A Child – Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440
In M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, the Court of Appeal reaffirmed the governing legal test for appointing intermediaries in family proceedings. It allowed an appeal against a judge’s refusal to direct intermediary support for a neurodivergent mother, emphasising that the correct threshold under Part 3A of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR […]