Question follow-through · 35194
Domestic Abuse: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the guidance entitled Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 in preventing children from being returned to abusive parents.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the guidance entitled Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 in preventing children from being returned to abusive parents.
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
Local authorities have a duty to protect all children, including those returning home from care.The statutory 'Children Act 1989 guidance and regulations volume 2: care planning, placement and case review' is clear that where the plan is for a child to re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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