Question follow-through · 76928
Kinship Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to review the financial support available to kinship carers.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 7 Oct 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to review the financial support available to kinship carers.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Oct 2025
Answer published
There is a duty on children’s services to arrange special guardianship support services in the local areas. Under section 14F of the Children Act 1989, “each local authority must make arrangements for the provision within their area of special guardianshi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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