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1719450

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's Kinship Care Strategy published on 15 December 2023, what criteria is used to allocate children's social care services; and what steps her Department is taking to support kinship carers.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	27188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 24/05/2024 13:17:16 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1718881

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on the implementation of the National Kinship Care Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Mid Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	26804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>‘Championing Kinship Care’, which was published on 15 December 2023, sets out the department’s vision for a future kinship care system and how kinship carers can be better supported, so that more children can thrive. The department is investing £20 million of funding in 2024/25 to help move towards a children’s social care system with kinship at its heart.</p><p> </p><p>The department will launch a Pathfinder programme in 2024 in up to eight local authorities to provide special guardian kinship carers, who care for previously looked after children, with a financial allowance to be paid at the same rate as foster care. This programme will be backed by an investment of £16 million in 2024/25 and the department will explore expanding eligibility to broader cohorts of kinship carers and all local authorities in the future, subject to the findings of our evaluation. The department is currently working through the criteria for the eight local authorities, and will share further information on the Pathfinder in the coming months.</p><p> </p><p>The department also announced £3.8 million in 2024/25 to expand the role of Virtual School Heads to specifically include championing the education, attendance and attainment of children in kinship care. Local authority funding allocations were published in March 2024 and the role extension will come into effect from September 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The department is also delivering a package of training and support that all kinship carers across England can access if they wish to within this Spending Review period. The department is pleased to confirm the charity Kinship as the successful training partner and that the service went live in April 2024.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 21/05/2024 16:45:51 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1700522

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on the roll out of the Championing Kinship Care strategy; and what her planned timetable is for deploying it nationally.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Holly Mumby-Croft
uin	21409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>In December 2023, the department published 'Championing Kinship Care', which is the first ever national kinship care strategy. The department is investing £20 million of funding in the 2024/25 financial year for Championing Kinship Care to help move towards a children’s social care system with kinship at its heart.</p><p>Since the publication of Championing Kinship Care, the department has:</p><ul><li>Published its recruitment campaign for the first ever Kinship Ambassador</li><li>Published updated local authority funding allocations for the 2024/25 financial year for Virtual School Heads, including the £3.8 million uplift to cover their extended duties to promote the educational outcomes of children in kinship care.</li><li>Launched a package of training and support that will be delivered by Kinship. The service will provide both online and in-person training sessions for kinship carers and will cover topics such as contact with parents, how to register for a new school and support with caring for teenagers.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The department will provide an update on the financial allowance pathfinder programme in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 22/04/2024 11:23:45 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4867 label Biography information for Holly Mumby-Croft

1692457

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2024 to Question 13186 on Carers, whether the training and information that will be accessible via the supplier Kinship’s website performs the function of a portal.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	16218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Milton Keynes North, to the answer of 12 February 2024 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-02-05/13186" target="_blank">13186</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 14/03/2024 11:41:06 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1687629

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the policy paper entitled Championing kinship care: national kinship care strategy, published on 15 December 2023, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a portal to (a) centralise guidance and (b) help support (i) kinship carers and (ii) schools.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	13186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The department’s national kinship strategy, Championing Kinship Care, which was published in December 2023, has allocated £20 million in the next financial year to prioritise kinship care.</p><p>One of the commitments in Championing Kinship Care is to deliver a package of training and support that all kinship carers across England can access from this spring.</p><p>All training and information will be accessible via the supplier Kinship’s website, and the department currently has no plans to assess the merits of a centralised portal.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 12/02/2024 16:49:40 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1671785

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of support for kinship carers (a) nationally and (b) in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.
tabling member constituency	Mid Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	2978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>As part of the commitments outlined in 'Stable Homes, Built on Love', the department made a commitment to implement or explore each of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s recommendations on kinship care.</p><p> </p><p>The department is in the final stages of drafting its kinship strategy, which outlines plans to enhance support for all kinship families in England. This strategy will complement the existing support initiatives offered by the department, such as the peer-to-peer support service.</p><p> </p><p>Following on from the progress and positive impact of the peer-to-peer support contract, the department will deliver a package of training and support that all kinship carers in England can access if they wish to, regardless of whether they have a legal order in place. This will be implemented from Spring 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Statutory guidance issued to local authorities already makes it clear that children and young people should receive the support that they and their carers need to safeguard and promote their welfare. There is no limit on the level of support, including financial support, that local authorities can provide. All local authorities should have in place clear eligibility criteria in relation to the provision of support services.</p><p> </p><p>The department has committed to work across government to explore possible additional workplace entitlements for kinship carers with a Special Guardianship Order (SGO) or Child Arrangement Order (CAO), as well as exploring the case for mandating a financial allowance for kinship carers with SGOs and CAOs in every local authority. Further details will be shared in due course.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 27/11/2023 17:33:17 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1671788

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to publish the National Kinship strategy by the end of 2023.
tabling member constituency	Mid Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	2981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>The department is committed to delivering this strategy this year and to improving outcomes for children in kinship care. This is part of a wider, once in a generation reset to the children’s social care system, as set out in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, which aims to rebalance the children’s social care system away from costly crisis intervention, towards meaningful and effective help for families, to deliver better outcomes for children.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 27/11/2023 17:30:10 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1662057

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education of 14 September 2023 on Kinship Care, Offical Report, Column 408WH, if she will publish the methodology used to estimate the number of children in kinship in the 2021 census.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	200539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2023 answer text <p>On 14 September, the department agreed to share the latest data on the number of children in kinship care according to the Office for National Statistic’s (ONS) 2021 census. The kinship care data from the 2021 census can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/adhocs/1345ct210105census2021" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/adhocs/1345ct210105census2021</a>. The kinship care data from the 2011 census is available here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/adhocs/1344ct1286census2011" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/adhocs/1344ct1286census2011</a></p><p>The ONS published an article on 26 September 2023 which describes how the figures have been derived from the 2021 census, available at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/articles/kinshipcareinenglandandwales/census2021" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/articles/kinshipcareinenglandandwales/census2021</a>. The description of how the figures have been derived also appears in the notes of the tables the ONS has already published. Caution is needed when inferring any trends from these data sets as the Census figures for 2021 are of higher quality than the 2011 Census figures. The quality note on ‘Comparing Census 2021 household relationships with 2011 Census’ can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/methodologies/demographyandmigrationqualityinformationforcensus2021" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/methodologies/demographyandmigrationqualityinformationforcensus2021</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 17/10/2023 12:28:49 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1543540

registered interest
date	18/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help support kinship carers.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	90897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>The department is supporting the Kinship charity to deliver up to 100 peer-to-peer support groups across England to support kinship carers.</p><p>The recently published Independent Review of Children’s Social Care set out recommendations on how the government can support kinship families. The department is now considering these recommendations. We are working up a comprehensive response to the recommendations in the Review, which will set out how the department intends to support kinship families.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 28/11/2022 12:48:27 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1535508

registered interest
date	24/10/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the potential cost of providing kinship carers with a non-means tested allowance at the same rate as foster carers who look after a child in care.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	69826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>The recently published Independent Review of Children’s Social Care set out recommendations on how the government can better support kinship families. The department is currently considering how we can take these recommendations forward, including the recommendations to create an allowance and a new entitlement to kinship leave for all special guardians and kinship carers with a Child Arrangements Order in place.</p><p> </p><p>The department is rapidly working up an ambitious and comprehensive implementation strategy in response to the recommendations in the Review, which will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 69827 question first answered 01/11/2022 17:49:12 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter