Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 33180
Department for Business and Trade: Kinship Care
Tabled: 24 February 2025
Answered: 4 March 2025
Question
Chris Bloore
Labour — Redditch
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department offers (a) paid time off work and (b) other support to employees who become kinship carers.
Answer
Justin MaddersEmployees can apply for five days paid special leave as a friends and family carer, this can be increased to ten days in a 12-month period.Employees also have the statutory right to take up to a week’s unpaid leave in any 12-month period, to provide or ar...
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