Question follow-through · 27049

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle safeguarding issues relating to (a) children at risk of being removed from the UK in contravention of a court ruling and (b) other children with a foreign

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
28 Jan 2025
Target answer date
30 Jan 2025
Answer
10 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle safeguarding issues relating to (a) children at risk of being removed from the UK in contravention of a court ruling and (b) other children with a foreign

  2. 30 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ 2023 is clear that, if at any time it is considered that a child may be in need or has suffered significant harm or is likely to do so, a referral should be made immediately to a local author...

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