Question follow-through · 8379
Children: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of families with children about whom (a) care and (b) protection issues have been raised who are offered a family group conference.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 9 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
9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of families with children about whom (a) care and (b) protection issues have been raised who are offered a family group conference.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
The department does not hold this data Statutory guidance for local authorities, such as ‘Working together to safeguard children’ and the ‘Children’s social care national framework’, encourages local authorities to consider family group decision making, s...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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