Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 6255

Kinship Care: Leave

Tabled: 4 October 2024

Answered: 11 October 2024

Question

Andy McDonald

Labour — Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce a right to paid employment leave to support kinship carers.

Answer

Janet Daby

The department recognises the challenges that many kinship carers face in continuing to work alongside the pressures of taking in a child, and we believe they should be supported to remain in work where possible. Kinship carers are likely to benefit from ...

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