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Lords Chamber
Children’s Care Homes: Reform - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) the response from foster carers and increasing that part of the market, particularly in relation to kinship - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) My Lords, would the Minister accept thanks for having mentioned kinship care, which is a very important - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We are going to publish the long-awaited kinship care strategy by the end of this year, which will set - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy (Public Services Committee Report) - Wed 20 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Morris of Yardley (LAB - Life peer) To put kinship care firmly in the policy was important, because it has been ignored in the past. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) It also shares the highest proportion of children within kinship care settings. - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) deal more joined-up than it is.We have heard about kinship care. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) There will be trials of kinship care support packages. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Family Migration (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report) - Wed 20 Sep 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) the sponsor in the UK must undertake to provide for the applicant’s maintenance, accommodation and care - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) If his parents are found to have died, why not use kinship care and reunion with appropriate kin? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Support for Bereaved Children - Thu 14 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) All we need to do, and all I ask the Government to do, is invest some time, thought and care into coming - Speech Link
2: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) Care, counselling and support should be given to young children. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The assumption is that if bereaved children do not need foster care, then their families can take care - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) Coventry North West (Taiwo Owatemi), who I know is currently attending a Westminster Hall debate on kinship - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for Kinship Carers - Thu 14 Sep 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) over how many children live in kinship care and where kinship carers work. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) as kinship care if we want to avoid that reality. - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (CON - Wantage) carers and children in kinship care arrangements. - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) carers and children in kinship care get support. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
A Failure of Implementation (Children and Families Act 2014 Committee Report) - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) On the issues of looked-after children, fostering, post-adoption support, kinship care, family justice - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) Do the Government believe that providing £50 for training and support for every child in kinship care - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) Finally, we will publish on kinship care by year end. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cost of Living: Private rented sector - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) One lady has taken on a kinship caring responsibility, but she is being penalised by the system. - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) That is particularly difficult if their child is on an education, health and care plan. - Speech Link
3: Paulette Hamilton (LAB - Birmingham, Erdington) Sometimes we have to spend so that we can ensure that our citizens are being taken care of.There are - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison: Support for Dependent Children - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) hard, with our review of Working Together to Safeguard Children and our review of children’s social care - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) That also presents an opportunity for earlier intervention and continuity of support and care. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) have children they are looked after by other family members and that, if the children are taken into care - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) in the pathfinder projects, which we will launch shortly, following our review of children’s social care - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Western (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) In health, care and early years courses, it reported significant issues recruiting staff, due to salary - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) of young children, including childminders or those giving kinship care. - Speech Link
3: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) The college has everything from T-level engineering to courses on health and social care and training - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) security at level 4; and a foundation degree in science—professional practice in health and social care—at - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (CB - Life peer) that transition—as will the possibility to create ladders of opportunity for those working in social care - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) During his seminal research in the East End, Family and Kinship in East London being the most famous, - Speech Link