This is the first-ever National Kinship Care Strategy to be published in the UK. The strategy establishes “the foundations for a future, transformed kinship care system in England.”
The strategy includes the following commitments, amongst others:
- Launching a kinship financial allowance, paid at the same rate as the fostering allowance, beginning in up to 8 local authorities
- Expanding the Virtual School Head’s role
- Renaming the Adoption Support Fund to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
- New government guidance for employers on how kinship carers can be supported at work
- Establishing a training, information and advice offer for all kinship carers
- Creating a new Kinship Care Ambassador role
- Publishing an updated version of the 2011 Family and Friends Care: Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities
- Agreeing work with the Law Commission to review legal orders and statuses for kinship carers
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