Department for Education written question – answered at on 26 October 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that kinship carers have sufficient financial support.
Kinship carers’ access to financial support depends on the individual circumstances of the carer and the child. This includes whether the arrangement in place is formal or informal and whether a child in an informal arrangement is recognised as being ‘in need’ under s17 of the Children Act 1989.
The Children Act 1989 sets out the duties and responsibilities of local authorities to support the needs of all children living with family and friends carers. Statutory guidance “Children Act 1989: family and friends care”, published during the last Parliament, strengthened the requirements on local authorities to support families and friends caring arrangements, including on financial support.
The guidance is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-act-1989-family-and-friends-care.
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