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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
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.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Childcare
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