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However, where a placement in a state boarding school is in the best interest of a child in kinship care they should have the opportunity to consider this option, and the noble Lord is quite right to raise its profile. This is why we continue to support the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation’s broadening educational pathways programme, which provides a placement-matching and brokerage service to children in need and children in care in state boarding and independent schools. I am not aware of any DCS who is squeamish about this; I am sure the noble Lord will inform me at another time if he knows of any who are.