Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 89944

Kinship Care

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

James McMurdock

Independent — South Basildon and East Thurrock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to councils on encouraging the use of kinship care arrangements.

Answer

Josh MacAlister
The department’s statutory guidance on the purpose, principles for practice and expected outcomes of children’s social care that should be achieved so children and young people can grow up to achieve and thrive is in the Children’s Social Care National Fr...
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