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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.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
5 Jan 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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