Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 60671

Special Guardianship Orders: Kinship Care

Tabled: 17 June 2025
Answered: 25 June 2025

Question

Luke Murphy

LabourBasingstoke

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) implications for her policies of the (i) financial and (ii) housing pressures experienced by kinship carers and (b) impact of those pressures on the sustainabil

Answer

Janet Daby
The government recognises the significant financial, and wider, pressures faced by kinship carers and their impact on the sustainability of special guardianship placements.That is why the government announced £40 million investment in a Kinship Allowance ...

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