Question follow-through · 34145
Kinship Care: Education and Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children in kinship care receive adequate (a) education and (b) mental health support.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 31 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children in kinship care receive adequate (a) education and (b) mental health support.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department is committed to ensuring that children in kinship care get the support that they need to thrive. There are a number of ways in which we support their educational and mental health needs.From September 2024, the department expanded the role ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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