Question follow-through · 46457
Social Services: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve (a) recruitment and (b) retention in local government children's services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve (a) recruitment and (b) retention in local government children's services.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
Local government children’s services provide vital support and protection to society’s most vulnerable children. The department is grateful for the work that children’s social care workforces do every day.In November, we published ‘Keeping children safe, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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