Question follow-through · 101225
Pupils: Kinship Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to educators to support their understanding of kinship care.
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
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 19 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
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to educators to support their understanding of kinship care.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The government recognises that there is a need for greater awareness of the needs of kinship children and families and the importance of improving data collection in this space and is therefore exploring including kinship in the school census.Following th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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