Question follow-through · 7476
Adoption: Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help encourage more people to become adopters of children in the care system.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help encourage more people to become adopters of children in the care system.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2024
Answer published
The government is committed to working with Regional Adoption Agencies, groups of local authorities joining up to deliver adoption services, to ensure that children waiting to be adopted are placed with a loving family as quickly as possible. In 2024/25, ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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