Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 58316

Kinship Care

Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 17 June 2025

Question

Shivani Raja

ConservativeLeicester East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that family carers are meaningfully involved in the (a) planning and (b) decision-making processes of local integrated care systems.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Under the National Health Service Act 2006, integrated care boards (ICBs) must make arrangements to ensure patients, and their carers and representatives are involved in the planning and commissioning of health and care, whether through consultation or th...

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