Member

Amendment 76 would require the Secretary of State to carry out a full review of the effectiveness of current pathways for the approval of kinship carers and lay this before Parliament. Subsection (3) of the proposed new clause would require the Secretary of State to introduce regulations for the approval of kinship carers so that the existing regulations would be updated and overhauled. This acknowledges that the changes proposed by Amendments 73, 74, 75 and 76A respond to the issues thrown up by the increased and increasing use of kinship care. This is an area in need of coherent review, as I set out in my opening remarks.