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Krish Kandiah

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Covers:  Social care, global child welfare reform, adoption, fostering, Hong Kong, politics, film, faith, race, refugees, Assylum, philanthropy
Foster carer, adoptive father, and advocate for refugees and vulnerable children. Author, speaker, and broadcaster. All views are my own.

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Krish Kandiah’s Biography

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Dr Kandiah is a social entrepreneur with a vision to help solve some of society’s seemingly intractable problems through building partnerships across civil society, faith communities, government and philanthropy.
He is the chair of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board where he brings strategic leadership to the finding of permanent loving families for children in the care system working across the sector and advising the English government. He is the founder of Afghan Welcome …

Krish Kandiah’s Journalist Portfolio

We foster carers are unsupported, unappreciated and undervalued

We foster carers are unsupported, unappreciated and undervalued

My colleagues come from all walks of life and bring skill and commitment to caring for the most vulnerable ch…

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'Net Migration Is Falling But The Small Boats Keep Coming'

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By Krish Kandiah
| Yahoo News UK Verified
The net migration figures released this week make for extraordinary reading. Net migration to the UK has fallen dramatically. Work visa applications have plummeted. Study visas no longer bring family members automatically. And emigration is accelerating – not just British people leaving, but large numbers of immigrants departing too. For years, the political right has spoken of invasion. On the evidence of this week’s data, that invasion has gone into reverse. It is beginning to look like an exodus.
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Why I changed my mind about Lent

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By Krish Kandiah
| Christianity Magazine Verified
Krish Kandiah used to think that Lent was dreary, oppressive and legalistic. But taking time out from our always-on world can be the best kind of spiritual reset, he says, and help us to align our lives with the hope and future that God promises I used to think that Lent was a sad time of dreary abstinence; pompous abstemiousness for guilt-ridden legalists or weight-loss obsessives, an outdated discipline that had no place for ordinary people in a modern world.
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Churches stand ready to help refugees

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By Krish Kandiah
| Church Times Verified
IN THE 1950s, when Irish workers came to the UK, they often found hostile signs in guest houses and pubs: “No Blacks. No Irish. No Dogs.” Thankfully, those signs are gone, but the sentiment feels uncomfortably familiar. Wherever a St George’s flag is painted on a roundabout or wall, it can seem to say: “No Foreigners. No Asylum-seekers. No Muslims.” How quickly things have changed. Only a few years ago, our towns and cities were awash with rainbow posters celebrating NHS workers.
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