Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to maintain funding for the Family Rights Group family advice line beyond March 2020.

The department’s grant funding to the Family Rights Group for running the Family and Friends Helpline, which supports Kinship Carers, ends on 31 March 2020. The Treasury has now allocated budgets for 2020-21 only. The department will conduct any necessary procurement work for grants and contracts in due course.