Question follow-through · 24063
Further Education: Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward proposals to finalise the care placements for children in care to align with applications to post-16 education.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward proposals to finalise the care placements for children in care to align with applications to post-16 education.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
The department recognises the critical importance of continuity and stability throughout a looked after child’s life. Under the ‘Care planning, placement and case review’ guidance and regulations, the child’s allocated social worker should do everything p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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