Question follow-through · 24284
Department for Transport: Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) her Department and (b) each of its arms length bodies offers employees who are foster carers (i) flexible working, (ii) paid time off for (A) training and (B) settling a new child into their home an
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) her Department and (b) each of its arms length bodies offers employees who are foster carers (i) flexible working, (ii) paid time off for (A) training and (B) settling a new child into their home an
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department for Transport does not have a specific policy to support foster carers (except where staff are fostering to adopt and may be eligible for adoption leave). It has policies to support carers, including parental leave, paid and unpaid special ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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