Kinship Care: Finance
Commons · Question 48 · Tabled 17 Jul 2024 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 22 Jul 2024
Question
Asked by Grahame Morris
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing a financial allowance to kinship carers equal to that received by foster carers.
Answer
Answered by Janet Daby, 22 Jul 2024
The department is committed to working in partnership with local government to support children in care, whether they are being looked after by their community of wider kinship care, foster carers and adoptive parents, or being cared for in children’s hom...