Policy paper

Championing kinship care: national kinship care strategy

This strategy will enable more children who cannot live with their parents to stay with people who are known to them and love them.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 15 December 2023

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Championing kinship care: national kinship care strategy

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-4618-5, E03039282 12/23, CP 988

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We are committed to transforming outcomes for vulnerable children and championing kinship families so that more children can thrive. This is part of the wider children’s social care reform.

The document explains how we will:

• make sure children in kinship care have good outcomes
• give more help and support to kinship carers
• listen to what kinship families need and want

For more information, read:

• kinship carers in the workplace: guidance for employers
• promoting the education of children with a social worker and children in kinship care arrangements

Published 15 December 2023