Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that kinship carers with children aged under 18 are exempted from conditionality requirements; and if he will make a statement.

Where work-related requirements do apply, work coaches should already take account of a person's caring responsibilities and the particular circumstances of kinship carers who have older children – for example, ensuring that the work coach considers the impact of any Residence Orders or Special Guardianship Orders on a claimant's capacity to look and be available for work.