Question follow-through · 19527
Kinship Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide additional funding to help support kinship carers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide additional funding to help support kinship carers.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government recognises the important role that kinship carers play in caring for some of the most vulnerable children. On 27 October 2024, the government announced a £40 million package to trial a new Kinship Allowance in up to ten local authorities to...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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