Question follow-through · 27403

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support children's services in Devon.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
3 Feb 2025
Answer
12 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support children's services in Devon.

  2. 3 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The department has been working closely with Devon County Council since Ofsted’s inspection of children’s services in March 2020, in which services were found to be Inadequate overall and were placed in formal intervention under a Statutory Direction.As p...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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