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date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of introducing paid kinship care leave for new kinship carers on (a) those carers and (b) the children in their care.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	189306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <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> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 19/06/2023 13:33:38 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1600839

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Leave
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 1 November 2022 to Question 69827 on Carers: Leave, what progress her Department has made on creating an allowance and a new entitlement to kinship leave for all special guardians and kinship carers with a Child Arrangements Order in place.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	157059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2023 answer text <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>The department published the consultation and implementation strategy: Stable Homes, Built on Love, on 2 February 2023, which sets out how we will achieve broad, system-wide transformation. Through this strategy we have made a commitment to implement each of the Review’s recommendations on kinship care.</p><p>The department has committed to working across government to explore possible additional workplace entitlements and options for an extension of legal aid for kinship carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) or child arrangement order (CAO). The department is also exploring the case for mandating a financial allowance for kinship carers with SGOs and CAOs in every local authority.</p><p>The department is committed to publishing a national kinship care strategy by the end of 2023. This will provide an update on reform activity such as exploring financial allowances. The strategy will set out a long-term vision for kinship care, and detail how we can better support children and carers. The department sees this as a pivotal moment for kinship care and will be an opportunity to make real and lasting change.</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> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 10/03/2023 12:40:06 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1535509

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: Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a right to kinship leave for special guardians and kinship carers with a child arrangements order.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	69827
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 69826 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

1486258

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of granting kinship carers paid time off work when a child starts living with them.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	30079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>The department will consider the recommendations made in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, including the recommendations to introduce a statutory definition of kinship care, provide kinship carers with paid time off work when a child starts living with them, and provide financial allowances at the same rate as foster carers.</p> answering member constituency Bassetlaw answering member printed Brendan Clarke-Smith grouped question UIN 30077 30078 question first answered 13/07/2022 16:43:59 answering member 4756 label Biography information for Brendan Clarke-Smith
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq