Question follow-through · 5177

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she made of the implications for her policies of the document entitled General Election 2024: NSPCC priorities for manifestos and programmes for government, published in May 2024.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
12 Sept 2024
Answer
18 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she made of the implications for her policies of the document entitled General Election 2024: NSPCC priorities for manifestos and programmes for government, published in May 2024.

  2. 12 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Nothing is more important than keeping children safe and the government is committed to protecting children experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, significant harm as well as tackling the underlying factors driving this. The department is interested in...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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