A Bill to make provision about parental leave for kinship carers who take on responsibility for children whose parents are unable to care for them; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
4 May 2022
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The Kinship Care (Parental Leave) Bill would extend parental leave rights to kinship carers—relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles or other family members who take responsibility for a child when the parents cannot care for them. It aims to allow these kinship carers to take time off work to care for the child, with the law covering related purposes as needed.
The bill has completed its 1st reading (21 June 2021) and is at the 2nd reading stage in the Commons (6 May 2022). If it progresses, it would move to committee stage and further readings before potentially becoming law.
Generated 21 February 2026
21 Jun 2021
6 May 2022
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
