Question follow-through · 24285
Department for Work and Pensions: Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- 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 Work and Pensions, 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
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jan 2025
Answer published
All employees of DWP, including foster carers, have access to flexi time and can exercise their legal right to request other kinds of flexible working. Specific provision exists for foster carers to have paid time off for their initial assessment, trainin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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