Kinship Care, Family Support & Early Intervention with Bobby Dean MP
In this Professional Talk, Humphrey Hawksley speaks with Bobby Dean MP on the pressures facing kinship carers, the importance of early support, and what can happen when families are left to manage complex situations without enough help.
Bobby Dean MP shares his own experience of going to live with his grandparents as a teenager and the stability they gave him at a difficult point in his life and how it has shaped his view on what help is needed to better support children, young people and kinship carers.
Please find below the video from the talk and also the audio podcast below.
Bobby Dean is the Liberal Democrat MP for Carshalton and Wallington since 4 July 2024. He currently undertakes the role of Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
Raised on a council estate, the son of a cleaner and a scaffolder, he moved into the care of his grandparents as a teenager.
His career was in International Development, where he ran his own small business advising charities working on global poverty, health and education issues. He has also been involved in human rights and democratic development work in Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Bobby prides himself in being a champion for children - working for improved rights for those in Kinship Care, drawing on his own personal experiences, as well as supporting children in care and care leavers more broadly.
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