Question follow-through · 48680
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support local authorities to ensure that children in foster care arrangements are placed in a suitable home.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 23 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
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support local authorities to ensure that children in foster care arrangements are placed in a suitable home.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
The department is supporting local authorities to recruit and retain more foster carers so that councils can find more suitable foster homes, resulting in greater choice for better placement matching for the children in their care. Currently, there are 10...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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