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Information between 12th March 2024 - 21st April 2024

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Parliamentary Debates
Children and Young People: Local Authority Care 27 speeches (11,027 words) Thursday 18th April 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) At the moment, however, only 15% of all children in care are in kinship care. - Link to Speech 2: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They must, in the same way, enable exploration of the prospects for kinship care. - Link to Speech 3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) We need to encourage more people to adopt, to foster and to enter kinship care. - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) That is why we are championing kinship care arrangements through our first kinship care strategy and - Link to Speech
Local Government Finances 35 speeches (19,162 words) Thursday 21st March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) This includes investment in expanding family help and targeting early intervention, expanding kinship - Link to Speech

Parliamentary Debates

Children and Young People: Local Authority Care
27 speeches (11,027 words)
Thursday 18th April 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) At the moment, however, only 15% of all children in care are in kinship care. - Link to Speech
2: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They must, in the same way, enable exploration of the prospects for kinship care. - Link to Speech
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) We need to encourage more people to adopt, to foster and to enter kinship care. - Link to Speech
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) That is why we are championing kinship care arrangements through our first kinship care strategy and - Link to Speech

Local Government Finances
35 speeches (19,162 words)
Thursday 21st March 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) This includes investment in expanding family help and targeting early intervention, expanding kinship - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 16th April 2024 Oral Evidence - Kinship, Adoption UK, and The Fostering Network Children’s social care - Education Committee Found: Dr Lucy, may I come to you on the outcomes for children in kinship care?
Tuesday 26th March 2024 Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, Prime Minister Liaison Committee (Commons) Found: I think that, particularly in two areas—kinship care and SEND placements —there is an urgent need
Tuesday 12th March 2024 Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response - Foreign Affairs Committee Found: Her kinship care guardian tried to reach her, and she was stopped in Moscow.
Tuesday 12th March 2024 Oral Evidence - International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Kings College London The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response - Foreign Affairs Committee Found: Her kinship care guardian tried to reach her, and she was stopped in Moscow.
Tuesday 12th March 2024 Oral Evidence - Mykola Kuleba, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) at University College London (UCL), and Shahida Tulaganova The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response - Foreign Affairs Committee Found: Her kinship care guardian tried to reach her, and she was stopped in Moscow.

Written Answers
Carers: Romford Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford) Tuesday 19th March 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support kinship carers in Romford constituency. Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) In December 2023, the department published Championing Kinship Care, the first ever national kinship care strategy. The department is investing £20 million of funding in financial year 2024/25 for Championing Kinship Care, to help move towards a children’s social care system with kinship at its heart. It may be helpful to look at Kinship’s website to see whether there are local peer to peer support groups being delivered for kinship carers in Romford. The website can be found here: https://compass.kinship.org.uk/groups/.

Written Answers

Carers: Romford
Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)
Tuesday 19th March 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support kinship carers in Romford constituency.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

In December 2023, the department published Championing Kinship Care, the first ever national kinship care strategy. The department is investing £20 million of funding in financial year 2024/25 for Championing Kinship Care, to help move towards a children’s social care system with kinship at its heart.

It may be helpful to look at Kinship’s website to see whether there are local peer to peer support groups being delivered for kinship carers in Romford. The website can be found here: https://compass.kinship.org.uk/groups/.

Department Publications - Policy paper
Monday 25th March 2024 Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report Document: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report (print version) (PDF) Found: This includes investment in expanding family help and targeted early intervention, expanding kinship
Monday 25th March 2024 Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report Document: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report (PDF) Found: This includes investment in expanding family help and targeted early intervention, expanding kinship

Department Publications - Policy paper

Monday 25th March 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Source Page: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report
Document: Financial distress in local authorities: government response to the Select Committee report (print version) (PDF)

Found: This includes investment in expanding family help and targeted early intervention, expanding kinship

Monday 25th March 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Found: This includes investment in expanding family help and targeted early intervention, expanding kinship

Kinship Care mentioned in Scottish results

Scottish Select Committee Publications
Thursday 28th March 2024 Correspondence - Letter from the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport to the HSCS Convener concerning the Stage 1 report of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill, 28 March 2024 National Care Service (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 report full response Health, Social Care and Sport Committee Found: Kinship care allowances (290) Current inconsistencies across Scotland in relation to kinship care
Tuesday 19th March 2024 Correspondence - Written Submission from Who Cares? Scotland Who Cares? Scotland - Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill Social Justice and Social Security Committee Found: of Care Experience and accessible to all young people with experience of formal care and informal kinship
Tuesday 19th March 2024 Correspondence - Letter from Minister for Children and Young People and Keeping the Promise, 19 March 2024 Publishing of Kinship Care Guidance Inquiry: Kinship care Committee: Social Justice and Social Security Committee Found: Publishing of Kinship Care Guidance Letter from Minister for Children and Young People and Keeping the

Scottish Government Publications
Wednesday 27th March 2024 Local Government and Housing Directorate Source Page: Scottish Discretionary Housing Payment: guidance manual Document: Scottish Discretionary Housing Payment Guidance Manual (PDF) Found: 35 (after which they will no longer be affected by the shared accommodation rat e) • families with kinship
Monday 25th March 2024 Children and Families Directorate Early Learning and Childcare Directorate Education Reform Directorate Energy and Climate Change Directorate Health and Social Care Finance, Digital and Governance Directorate Justice Directorate Mental Health Directorate Safer Communities Directorate Social Security Directorate Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate Ukraine Resettlement Directorate Source Page: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Scottish Government Initial Response to the Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Document: Initial Response to the UN Committee’s Closing Observations (PDF) Found: Support for Foster and Kinship Carers The Kinship Care Collaborative was established in November 202
Monday 25th March 2024 Learning Directorate Source Page: Care Experienced Children and Young People Fund: operational guidance 2023 to 2024 Document: Care Experienced Children and Young People Fund Operational Guidance 2023-24 (PDF) Found: may have been provided in one of many different settings such as in residential care, foster care, kinship
Monday 25th March 2024 People Directorate Source Page: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: November 2023 Document: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: November 2023 (Excel) Found: 00MeetingFiona Menzies-Henderson - Scottish Adult Adoptee Movement Adoption2023-11-17 00:00:00VisitAirdrie Kinship
Monday 25th March 2024 Constitution Directorate Source Page: Building a New Scotland: Education and lifelong learning in an independent Scotland Document: Education and lifelong learning in an independent Scotland (PDF) Found: for the children they are looking after’,27 and that Scotland must ‘ensure that children living in kinship
Monday 25th March 2024 Social Security Directorate Source Page: The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2024 Document: The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2024 (PDF) Found: the meaning of regulation 2 of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009, (iii) has a kinship
Wednesday 20th March 2024 Children and Families Directorate Source Page: Part 13 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Support for Kinship Care) & The Kinship Care Assistance (Scotland) Order 2016 - Updated Guidance 2024 Document: Part 13 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Support for Kinship Care) & The Kinship Care Assistance (Scotland) Order 2016 - Updated Guidance 2024 (webpage) Found: Part 13 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Support for Kinship Care) & The Kinship
Wednesday 20th March 2024 Children and Families Directorate Source Page: Part 13 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Support for Kinship Care) & The Kinship Care Assistance (Scotland) Order 2016 - Updated Guidance 2024 Document: Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 National Guidance on Part 13: Support for Kinship Care (2023) (PDF) Found: Part 13 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (Support for Kinship Care) & The Kinship

Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Young Carers Action Day 2024 14 speeches (40,562 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) in life, and thanks young carers for what it sees as the positive role that they play in providing kinship - Link to Speech