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Kinship Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the financial support available to kinship carers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
25 Nov 2024
Answer
28 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the financial support available to kinship carers.

  2. 25 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The government recognises the important role that kinship carers play in caring for some of the most vulnerable children.The government recently announced a £40 million package to trial a new Kinship Allowance in up to ten local authorities to test whethe...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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