Template letters for supporters of kinship carers
If you are a member of the public and wish to support kinship carers, please copy and paste either the first email text to write to your MP or the second email text below if you are based in Wales and want to contact your Senedd member.
You can also personalise it, if you have more information you want to add.
Template letter 1 to support kinship carers – MPs
As one of your constituents I’m asking you to urgently prioritise kinship carers in the next roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Kinship carers are raising 200,000 children in the UK who would otherwise be growing up in the care system.
Most are grandparents in their 50s and 60s and likely to have health conditions that make them vulnerable to Covid-19.
They are anxious about the risks of the virus on their health, but they are continuing to care for their children.
They have no choice. They’re doing the best they can, while fearing for their lives.
Receiving the vaccine will keep kinship carers safe and keep children out of the care system.
You can read this open letter from national charity Grandparents Plus to Nadhim Zahawi MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID Vaccine Deployment which sets out why this prioritisation is so important.
I’m asking you to recognise how important kinship carers are in supporting vulnerable children.
Prioritising them will reduce the risks of kinship carers getting ill – or worse – and reduce the risks of children entering the care system. So we’re we’re asking you to help them.
Please ask Nadhim Zahawi MP to support them.
Yours sincerely
Template letter 2 – Welsh Senedd
As one of your constituents I’m asking you to urgently prioritise kinship carers in the next roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Kinship carers are raising 200,000 children in the UK who would otherwise be growing up in the care system.
Most are grandparents in their 50s and 60s and likely to have health conditions that make them vulnerable to Covid-19.
They are anxious about the risks of the virus on their health, but they are continuing to care for their children.
They have no choice. They’re doing the best they can, while fearing for their lives.
Receiving the vaccine will keep kinship carers safe and keep children out of the care system.
You can read this open letter from national charity Grandparents Plus to Vaughan Gething MS, Minister for Health and Social Services which sets out why this prioritisation is so important.
I’m asking you to recognise how important kinship carers are in supporting vulnerable children.
Prioritising them will reduce the risks of kinship carers getting ill – or worse – and reduce the risks of children entering the care system. So we’re we’re asking you to help them.
Please ask Vaughan Gething MS to support them.
Yours sincerely
