Question follow-through · 36778
Children: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average length of time was for children fleeing domestic abuse to be allocated a school place in the latest period for which data is available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 28 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
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average length of time was for children fleeing domestic abuse to be allocated a school place in the latest period for which data is available.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
Children living in a refuge are, among a number of other categories of vulnerable and hard-to-place children, eligible for consideration under the fair access protocol. Where a child is referred to the protocol, they must be allocated a school place withi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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