The strategy, backed by £20m in funding, lays out plans to trial uplifting financial payments to kinship carers in eight local authority areas to match that offered to foster carers over the next four years.
It also reveals plans to rebrand the Adoption Support Fund as the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund and to create a recognised definition of kinship care, however, it does not propose to define this through legislation despite calls from campaigners.
Sector leaders have welcomed the strategy as a “significant recognition of the monumental role kinship carers play in transforming the experiences of hundreds of thousands of children”, however they add that it “does not go far enough to guarantee the right educational and therapeutic support to all children in kinship care”.
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