Question follow-through · 41621
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help retain foster carers.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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- Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund · 16 Sept 2025
- Children: Mental Health Services · 1 Dec 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help retain foster carers.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Adoption
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of families that have experienced adoption breakdown in the last 12 months.
Education: Restraint Techniques
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will introduce a statutory definition of restraint in the context of education.
Education: Restraint Techniques
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will introduce a statutory duty on all educational settings to record and report each incident of physical restraint to parents and relevant authorities.
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date she decided to reduce the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund fair access limit to £3,000 in 2025-26.
Children: Mental Health Services
1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2025 to Question 78154 on Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, what assessment her Department has been made of the potential economic impact of funding additional
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of local authorities' ability to deal with increased levels of demand for therapy above the Adoption Support and Special Guardianship Support Fund fair access limit.
Suicide: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
15 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to evaluate the implementation of age-appropriate suicide prevention and mental health education within Relationships, Sex and Health Education in schools; and what support is avai
Students: Loans
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