Question follow-through · 30919
Missing People: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to update the statutory guidance on children that (a) run away and (b) go missing from home or care.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to update the statutory guidance on children that (a) run away and (b) go missing from home or care.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Feb 2025
Answer published
The government takes the issue of missing children extremely seriously. The existing statutory guidance, ‘Children who run away or go missing from home of care’, outlines what local authorities and their partners must do to prevent and protect missing chi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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