Question follow-through · 51013
Children in Care: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure good quality therapy for care experienced children in a timely manner that meets the needs of families.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 13 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
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure good quality therapy for care experienced children in a timely manner that meets the needs of families.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 require an assessment of the health needs for every child when they enter care and a plan devised to address their needs. Together with the Department of Health and Social Care, the d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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