Question follow-through · 2573
Carers and Kinship Care: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve (a) the physical and mental health and (b) other aspects of the lives of unpaid and kinship carers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2024 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve (a) the physical and mental health and (b) other aspects of the lives of unpaid and kinship carers.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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2 Sept 2024
Answer published
Kinship carers play an extremely important role in both their kin children’s lives and in the children’s social care system.The government is committed to working in partnership with local government to support children in care, whether they are being loo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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