Question follow-through · 4312

Children in Care: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reform children's care services to improve outcomes for (a) children in care and (b) care leavers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 4 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 9 Sept 2024
Answer: 19 Sept 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reform children's care services to improve outcomes for (a) children in care and (b) care leavers.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2024
Answer published
Reforming children’s social care is critical to deliver the government’s Opportunity Mission, to ensure that no child or young person’s background limits their ambition or life chances.The department recognises that children in care and care leavers have ...

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