Question follow-through · 35094
Children: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to reintroduce a safeguarding database for children.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to reintroduce a safeguarding database for children.
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
Keeping children safe is a priority for this government. Through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, the department is taking a range of steps to improve safeguarding. We are introducing a new information sharing duty, making provision for a Single...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Childminding
14 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to allow childminders to provide funded places to related children who do not live with them.
Children and Young People: Gambling
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to improve the education of children and young people on risks associated with online gambling.
Social Services: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve (a) recruitment and (b) retention in local government children's services.
Children: Protection
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the threshold for intervention from children's services to protect children.
Childcare
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of permitting people to undertake government-funded childcare to children they are related to, but are not the parents of.