Question follow-through · 18768

Department for Work and Pensions: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is implementing a trauma-informed approach across all its services.

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
11 Dec 2024
Answer
17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is implementing a trauma-informed approach across all its services.

  2. 11 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Trauma Informed Approach recognises the pervasive impacts that trauma may have on an individual’s life; these impacts can span social, emotional, physiological, neurological and spiritual functioning. The impacts of trauma can make interacting with se...

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