Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help support kinship carers.

The department is supporting the Kinship charity to deliver up to 100 peer-to-peer support groups across England to support kinship carers.

The recently published Independent Review of Children’s Social Care set out recommendations on how the government can support kinship families. The department is now considering these recommendations. We are working up a comprehensive response to the recommendations in the Review, which will set out how the department intends to support kinship families.