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<p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England
only.</p><p>Kinship carers play an extremely important role in both their kin children’s
lives and in the Children’s Social Care system.</p><p>On 2 February 2023, the department
published its consultation and Children’s Social Care implementation strategy, ‘Stable
Homes, Built on Love’, which sets out how the department will achieve broad, system
wide transformation. Through this strategy, the department has made a commitment to
implement or explore each of the Review’s recommendations on kinship care.</p><p>The
department has committed to work across government to explore possible additional
workplace entitlements for kinship carers with a special guardianship order or child
arrangement order.</p><p>The department is also committed to publishing a national
kinship care strategy by the end of 2023, which builds on feedback the department
received following the publication of ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’. This will provide
an update on reform activity. The strategy will set out a long term vision for kinship
care and detail how the department can better support children and carers. The department
sees this as a pivotal moment for kinship care and is an opportunity to make real
and lasting change.</p>
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