What progress it is making in improving services and support to grandparents and relative carers.

Support for kinship carers is a matter for local authorities. Further, when announcing an extra £12 million support for foster care, the Scottish Executive made clear that local authorities could use this additional money to improve support for kinship carers if this was deemed to be a local priority.
The Scottish Executive continues to support carers under the “Strategy for Carers in Scotland” and has increased resources from £5 million per annum in 1999-2000 to £23 million this year.