Question follow-through · 35778
Schools: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with schools on ensuring that (a) external and (b) other staff are subject to sufficient Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with schools on ensuring that (a) external and (b) other staff are subject to sufficient Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
There is already a robust safeguarding framework in place in the form of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), which is the statutory safeguarding guidance that all schools and colleges must have regard to when safeguarding and promoting the welfare...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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