Question follow-through · 33195

Scotland Office: Kinship Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether their Department offers (a) paid time off work and (b) other support to employees who become kinship carers.

answeredScotland Office

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Answering body
Scotland Office
Tabled
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
26 Feb 2025
Answer
3 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 24 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether their Department offers (a) paid time off work and (b) other support to employees who become kinship carers.

  2. 26 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Scotland Office does not employ any staff directly. All staff that join, do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other government departments, principally the Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Government, who remain the employers. They rema...

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