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Written Question
Carers
Monday 22nd April 2024

Asked by: Holly Mumby-Croft (Conservative - Scunthorpe)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on the roll out of the Championing Kinship Care strategy; and what her planned timetable is for deploying it nationally.

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

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

Since the publication of Championing Kinship Care, the department has:

  • Published its recruitment campaign for the first ever Kinship Ambassador
  • Published updated local authority funding allocations for the 2024/25 financial year for Virtual School Heads, including the £3.8 million uplift to cover their extended duties to promote the educational outcomes of children in kinship care.
  • Launched a package of training and support that will be delivered by Kinship. The service will provide both online and in-person training sessions for kinship carers and will cover topics such as contact with parents, how to register for a new school and support with caring for teenagers.

The department will provide an update on the financial allowance pathfinder programme in the coming months.

Lords Chamber
Children and Young People: Local Authority Care - Thu 18 Apr 2024
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. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) With kinship care having clear benefits over other care arrangements, when will the sacrifices of kinship - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) That is why we are championing kinship care arrangements through our first kinship care strategy and - Speech Link

Select Committee
Kinship, Adoption UK, and The Fostering Network

Oral Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Inquiry: Children’s social care
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)

Found: Kinship, Adoption UK, and The Fostering Network Oral Evidence

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Putting Langholm on the Map - Tue 16 Apr 2024

Mentions:
1: Mundell, Oliver (Con - Dumfriesshire) sons and their families, who were back in Langholm recently.That was followed by a proclamation of kinship - Speech Link
2: Whittle, Brian (Con - South Scotland) Accessing hospital care, especially emergency care, is precarious at best, with accidents on trunk roads - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (Transparency data)
Financial Management Directorate
Budget and Public Spending Directorate

Apr. 08 2024

Source Page: Guide to the Spring Budget Revision 2023-24 – Finance Update for the FPAC
Document: Guide to the SBR - Finance Update for FPAC 2023-24 (PDF)

Found: within Scottish block Spring Budget Revision £’m £’m £’m £’m £’m £’m NHS, Health & Social Care

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
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

Correspondence Mar. 28 2024

Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Found: National Care Service (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 report full response Letter from the Minister for Social

Scottish Government Publication (Advice and guidance)
Local Government and Housing Directorate

Mar. 27 2024

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

Select Committee
Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, Prime Minister

Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024

Committee: Liaison Committee (Commons)

Found: Should the federated data platform be extended to primary care?

Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 25 2024

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: councils with responsibility for adult and children’s social care, distributed through the Social Care

Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mar. 25 2024

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: councils with responsibility for adult and children’s social care, distributed through the Social Care