Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what statutory guidance there is in respect of kinship care and special guardianship.

Family and Friends Care: Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities can be found at:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/288483/family-and-friends-care.pdf.

Statutory guidance for local authorities on the Special Guardianship Regulations 2005 (as amended by the Special Guardianship (Amendment) Regulations 2016) (January 2017) can be found at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/special-guardianship-guidance.