Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to Answer of 20 November 2023 to Question 755 on Carers: Finance, how her Department plans to spend the remaining £6 million committed in February 2023.

In February, the department announced £200 million funding alongside the ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ strategy, which is being used to address urgent issues over this Spending Review period and set the path for longer-term reform. As these plans have been implemented, there have been a number of changes to the balance of funding across reform programme areas including increases to the fostering pathfinder. The total £200 million announced in February 2023 will be directed to reform activity as detailed in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’.