Written questions

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...