Benefits of paid leave when kinship care arrangements start, include ensuring more carers can stay in their jobs as they begin supporting young people who cannot stay with their birth parents.
Paid leave also prevents kinship carers becoming reliant on benefits and helps young people to settle in their new home with carers, who are often grandparents and other family members.
The research has been published by the charity Family Rights Group, which warns that two in five kinship carers give up work due to their caring responsibilities, and one in five have to reduce their working hours.
The charity’s research, which has been carried out by Alma Economics, found that £2.20 is saved by the Treasury or every £1 invested in paid leave for kinship carers.
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