Question follow-through · 65001
Kinship Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the eligibility criteria for local authorities to qualify to be a pilot area for a financial allowance for kinship carers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the eligibility criteria for local authorities to qualify to be a pilot area for a financial allowance for kinship carers.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
All local authorities are eligible to apply for the Kinship Allowance Pilot, except for those which have received a section 114 notice and/or already offer a regular financial allowance that matches the National Minimum Allowance (NMA) to kinship carers w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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