Just 15% of the 83,840 children currently in the care system in England are being raised by kinship foster carers, rising to 23% of 7,210 children in Wales.
Despite rising numbers of children in the care system, the number in kinship foster care in England has remained steadily below 13,000 in the last three years, the research by Family Rights Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Kinship Care finds.
The groups have compared local authority level data to the wider population of children in the care system and international examples.
They note that there is significant variation between regions, from 19% in the North East to 10% in East of England.
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