Under the reformed Fair Access Protocol, which comes into force in September, children being raised by kinship carers under a legal order, who struggle to get a school place during the year, will be supported in finding one.
The change follows concerns raised last year by the cross-party Parliamentary Taskforce on Kinship Care, that some children being raised by relatives or friends, particularly those children who are not and have not been in the care system, are missing out on vital support to secure an appropriate school place.
There are more than 180,000 children across the UK raised in kinship care arrangements, latest government figures show.
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