Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 84062

Foster Care and Kinship Care: Leave

Tabled: 21 October 2025

Answered: 31 October 2025

Named Day

Question

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to take steps to ensure that (a) kinship and (b) foster carers have the same employment leave rights as (i) adoptive, (ii) maternity and (iii) paternity carers.

Answer

Josh MacAlister

The government has committed to conducting a review of the whole parental leave system. This review was launched on 1 July and represents a much-needed opportunity to consider our approach to the system of parental leave and pay.The department will also c...

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