Question follow-through · 19391
Pre-school Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support early childhood education providers to ensure that three-quarters of five-year-olds are school ready in (a) under-resourced and (b) other areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support early childhood education providers to ensure that three-quarters of five-year-olds are school ready in (a) under-resourced and (b) other areas.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Giving young children the best start in life is the foundation of the government’s Opportunity Mission. Children’s earliest years are crucial to their health, development and life chances. We have set a milestone of a record proportion of children startin...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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