Actor Brian Cox blasts adoption fund cuts

SUCCESSION star Brian Cox has thrown his weight behind a campaign to reverse cuts to a fund that provides vital therapy for vulnerable adopted kids.

- BY SIMON MURPHY

The government has slashed the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund by 40%, blocking thousands of families from getting the support they desperately need.

Now the Emmy award-winning actor, whose older sisters rallied to care for him as a child, has added his name to those demanding a U-turn.

Brian, 79 whose films include Braveheart, Churchill and The Bourne Identity is supporting the call after Motherland star Anna Maxwell Martin's plea last month.

In a powerful video for the campaign group Action Against ASGSF Changes, onetime Labour supporter Cox says: "All children have the right to feel safe, thrive and reach their potential.

"Adopted and kinship children and those under special guardianship orders are no different.

"The Labour government has cut a vital fund that supported these children. The ASGSF is a lifeline that allows adopted and kinship children and young adults to access specialist assessments and therapy.

"Therapy that cannot be accessed in any other way.