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Children: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will implement a national standard measure of children's wellbeing.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
18 Oct 2024
Target answer date
22 Oct 2024
Answer
28 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will implement a national standard measure of children's wellbeing.

  2. 22 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    This government has set a bold ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children in history, giving mental health the same attention as physical health. We are reforming NHS services and have committed to providing access to mental health profession...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Special Educational Needs: Young People

20 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the national standards underpinning transitional support provided to young people with SEND.

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Special Educational Needs: Young People

20 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure young people with SEND develop real skills for life.

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Autism: Education

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure (a) teachers and (b) school staff have adequate (i) knowledge of and (ii) confidence in teaching autistic children.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pupils: Health

18 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to consider support for the (a) mental health and (b) wellbeing of students in the national curriculum as part of the Curriculum and Assessment Review.

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Literacy: Children and Young People

25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the National Literacy Trust’s report entitled Children and young people’s writing in 2025, published on 12 June 2025.

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Pupils: Sexual and Reproductive Health

3 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to local education authorities to support school pupils with (a) endometriosis and (b) other (i) menstrual and (ii) reproductive health concerns.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Extended Services: Finance

23 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of increases in investment in wraparound childcare for school-aged children on (a) the economy and (b) civil society.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Childcare

23 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence her Department has on the number of parents unable to (a) increase their working hours and (b) return to work due to limited access to (i) affordable and (ii) reliable out-of-school childcare.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

24 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to include children from low-income families not currently in receipt of free school meals in the eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme.

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Childcare

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help develop reading for pleasure in schools.