Dear friend,

Wow! Nearly 3,300 signatures and MPs are paying attention! Here are a few of the comments we've had from MPs: 

Matt Rodda, MP - "I believe that Statutory Sick Pay should be available to everyone, including the low paid and self-employed, and it should be higher"

Kenny MacAskill MP - "Foster carers are invaluable and with there being a shortage its essential we maintain the services of those we have and they should be treated with dignity."

Allan Dorans MP - "I fully support that foster carers should receive SSP during the coronavirus pandemic and will raise this in Parliament at any opportunity."

If you would like us to write to your MP on your behalf to encourage them support SSP and #Rights4FosterCarers, please let us know here.

We are preparing to present the petition to the Chancellor of the Exchequer - Rishi Sunak MP and Secretary of State for Education - Gavin Williamson in the next week. If you know any foster carers, family, friends or colleagues who haven't signed yet - please make sure you encourage them to do it NOW!