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Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help retain foster carers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
28 Mar 2025
Answer
1 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help retain foster carers.

  2. 28 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    ​As part of my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement and building on the £15 million investment in the Autumn Budget 2024, the department will provide an additional £25 million over two ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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