Question follow-through · 68576
Kinship Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on the Kinship Allowance Pilot Scheme; and when that scheme will begin.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on the Kinship Allowance Pilot Scheme; and when that scheme will begin.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The department is ensuring that a fair and transparent process is used to identify which local authorities are best placed to deliver the Kinship Allowance Pilot, through a published expression of interest process. The application window for the expressio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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