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Kinship Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support kinship carers in (a) financial and (b) other ways.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
17 Mar 2025
Answer
17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support kinship carers in (a) financial and (b) other ways.

  2. 17 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland to the answer of 25 February 2025 to Question 31239.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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