| # | First Name | Last Name | State | Country | Comments |
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| 1 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | I agree that the law should change so that grandparents are reckonised for what they do and be paid something for it |
| 2 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | we have a residance order for our grandson we were told by social services ,if we didnt go for one, our grandson would be fostered and addopted with his half brothers. my husband and I have had no support or help financialy or otherwise from social services.they tell us it was a private order and are not now involved.
we keep being took back to court by mum it is costing us an absulute fortune to protect him. mum gets legal aid we have to pay as we own our house and both work.It is such a struggle sometimes to work and look after a seven year old. whos mum has abused him and a dad who has died |
| 3 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | |
| 4 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | |
| 5 | Stella | Price | | | |
| 6 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | As well as Residence Order Allowances there should be guaranteed allowances payable for the duration of the new Special Guardianship and none of these allowances should be means tested as some people have saved to supplement the basic state pension and had not anticipated the bringing up of grandchildren. These grandchildren will probably suffer financially against their peers if sufficient allowances are not paid. These children will have suffered enough and grandparents who have given up life in retirement to look after their grandchildren deserve to be treated better to enable them to bring up the much loved grandchildren without having to worry about money. |
| 7 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | |
| 8 | Kathryn | Greaves | | UK | Have you any idea just how many grandparents are caring for our grandchildren with little or no help at all? |
| 9 | JACQUIE | HARDY | | UK | |
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| 11 | Sheila | Clegg | | UK | Any extra money that we recieve would help to give our granchildren a better standed of living why should they have to live on a pension like us |
| 12 | Carole | stevenson | | UK | We all need help |
| 13 | Noor | Zaman | | UK | I am a grandmother bringing up her grand daughter full time since she was 6 wks old. She is know 2yrs and 6 months.I am still fighting to keep her through the courts.I back in court on Feb 24.I would like to see more help with the cost of bringing up grandchildren and more suport. |
| 14 | sally | karadag | | UK | |
| 15 | Patricia | Parnaby | | UK | |
| 16 | John | Scadden | | UK | |
| 17 | Selena | Saha | | UK | |
| 18 | Alan | Davies | | UK | |
| 19 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | we recive £60 per week we have been told it will go up to £70 when she is 5 then it wont go up any more till she is 11 but as she gets older things will get dearer and she will need more my husband is on a pension , i work |
| 20 | Susanne | Ferris | | UK | haken taken on through residence order our granddaughter but financial assistance is very lapse |
| 21 | Margaret | Robertson | | UK | |
| 22 | Jayne | Steer | | UK | |
| 23 | Yvonne | Jones | | UK | |
| 24 | Chris | Thomas | | UK | |
| 25 | john | stansfield | | UK | |
| 26 | john | stansfield | | UK | |
| 27 | Anonymous | Anonymous | PA | US | I,m a single women raising a son 12 and 2 grandkids 7-12 and after 5 months my daugther came to see them . there fathers in and out of jail never been there for their kids 2 different dads my daugther and i raised the kids. And ever since she lost her little angle a brith she turn to alcohol and drugs. but i still love her no matter what happeins in life. its hard cause i never saw myself raising 3 kids with very little support and realy no family cause people think that it can,t happien to them so i,m alone with my angels. I do,nt realy have a life anymore I,v been mom and dad and I guess I,ll still be mom and dad. God always blesses me with a little something . OH I for got to say my life doe,snt belong to me anymore it belong to my kids. no work no play . |
| 28 | Anonymous | Anonymous | PA | US | I,m a single women raising a son 12 and 2 grandkids 7-12 and after 5 months my daugther came to see them . there fathers in and out of jail never been there for their kids 2 different dads my daugther and i raised the kids. And ever since she lost her little angle a brith she turn to alcohol and drugs. but i still love her no matter what happeins in life. its hard cause i never saw myself raising 3 kids with very little support and realy no family cause people think that it can,t happien to them so i,m alone with my angels. I do,nt realy have a life anymore I,v been mom and dad and I guess I,ll still be mom and dad. God always blesses me with a little something . OH I for got to say my life doe,snt belong to me anymore it belong to my kids. no work no play . |
| 29 | anne | constable | | UK | |
| 30 | JENNY | MCMAHON | | UK | |
| 31 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | UK | |
| 32 | Carol | Fox | | UK | |
| 33 | John | Matthews | | UK | As a GAP I support all the points you are campaigning for |
| 34 | Karon | Jennings | | UK | |
| 35 | patricia | roberts | | UK | i to am a grandparent
bringing up my two of my grandchildren and have done for over 10 years thank you |
| 36 | annette | webster | | UK | |
| 37 | gina | houghton | | UK | How can this not be a right in a so called civalised society.grandparents make grandchidren feel loved ,secure and help them to grow up as useful members of society,unlike kids in care whos academic and social skills are much poorer than thier countrparts. THE GOVERMENT MUST LISTEN. |
| 38 | Yvonne | Jones | | UK | |
| 39 | david | rowlands | | UK | |
| 40 | joyce | rhodenizer | MO | US | |
| 41 | Rosina | Ottery | | GB | I have brought up my grandchild (and at times his brothers and sisters) for 12 years. I have been out of pocket and worn down by the workload of a traumatised children. There has been no help, no adivce, no community. I now face pensionable age without the expected financial means and feel bleak and angry. I love the kids but feel grandparents are a forgotten convenience. |
| 42 | CHRISTINE | HURST | | GB | I think you are doing a great job, to mind my grandchildren while my daughter works, I had to register as a childminder, so that she can afford to pay me. That isn't how it should be. Keep up the good work! |
| 43 | susan | radcliffe | | GB | Our grandson is 13,we have had rs order since 1996,bothe parents are on drugs,he never see,s his mother but does see his dad our son. |
| 44 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | GB | Our grandson is 13,we have had rs order since 1996,bothe parents are on drugs,he never see,s his mother but does see his dad our son. |
| 45 | Yvonne | Jones | | GB | Yvonne Jones |
| 46 | Shirleyann | Metcalfe | | GB | It is so unfair that Grand parents, carers who take on family members, are not helped financially. We as carers have not asked for more children, so why should we struggle financially, this creates more problems with in the family unit. The so called parents pay nothing towards their keep, they refuse all responsibility. We save the gouverment money, keeping these children out of foster care, it is discriminating us, not to pay us, as we do the same job as none relatives. |
| 47 | PATRICIA | MARRIOTT | | GB | please help people like us both finanically and with chid care and to stop social services treating us like second class citizens. |
| 48 | ann | orsbourn | | GB | |
| 49 | julie | zeller | KS | US | |
| 50 | gina | houghton | | GB | |
