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Question follow-through · 2098

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce excessive profits in the residential children’s social care sector.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
3 Sept 2024
Answer
3 Sept 2024 · 36 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce excessive profits in the residential children’s social care sector.

  2. 3 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Profiteering from vulnerable children in care is unacceptable. As part of the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, the department will strengthen the regulation of the sector to return children’s social care to delivering high quality outcomes for looked after chil...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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