Question follow-through · 76927
Kinship Care: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the mental health support needs of kinship carers and the children in their care; and what steps she is taking to improve their access to appropriate services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 22 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the mental health support needs of kinship carers and the children in their care; and what steps she is taking to improve their access to appropriate services.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Sept 2025
Answer published
All children, including those in kinship care, are entitled to access universal and targeted mental health services, such as NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and mental health support teams in schools. Children in kinship care who were prev...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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