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.
About this written question
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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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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
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.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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