Question follow-through · 8928
Young Carers: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with Ofsted on the potential merits of identifying young carers as a specific group within the education system.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with Ofsted on the potential merits of identifying young carers as a specific group within the education system.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
Young carers were added, as a specific group within the education system, to the school census in the 2022/23 academic year. Ofsted has committed to developing and consulting upon a revised schools’ inspection framework for September 2025. This will suppo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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