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<p>Kinship carers can already benefit from many workplace entitlements designed to
help parents and carers combine work with childcare. These include unpaid parental
leave, emergency time off for dependents and the right to request flexible working.</p><p>
</p><p>In our government response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care,
we committed to explore the introduction of additional workplace entitlements for
kinship carers. Since then, work has been underway across government to better understand
how government can support kinship carers to balance work and childcare. The Department
for Education is committed to publishing a national kinship strategy by the end of
2023.</p>
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