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Kinship Care: Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce a right to paid employment leave to support kinship carers.

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 4 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 8 Oct 2024
Answer: 11 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce a right to paid employment leave to support kinship carers.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Oct 2024
Answer published
The department recognises the challenges that many kinship carers face in continuing to work alongside the pressures of taking in a child, and we believe they should be supported to remain in work where possible. Kinship carers are likely to benefit from ...

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