Member

We support the statutory funding of kinship care in the Bill, but are critical that it provides merely a definition without practical solutions, including that financial support. My amendments try in some ways to look at how we can give extra support to kinship carers. I have three amendments in this group. Amendment 103 would extend the pupil premium to children subject to kinship care arrangements. Amendment 104 would mean that a person is entitled to kinship care allowance for any week in which the person is engaged as a kinship carer in England. Amendment 146 would introduce an entitlement for an individual to be absent from work on care leave where the individual is a kinship carer.