Question follow-through · 53285
Missing Persons: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to develop a cross-Government strategy for reducing the numbers of missing children.
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
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 9 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
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to develop a cross-Government strategy for reducing the numbers of missing children.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
This government champions the need for an effective multi-agency response that reduces the number of children going missing, whether this is from a family home or from the care of the local authority.The department’s long-standing statutory guidance on sa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pre-school Education: Finance
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of early years funding models in supporting (a) parents and (b) guardians who work fewer than 16 hours per week.
Childcare: Lone Parents
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of single parent family access to high quality childcare settings.
Childcare: Lone Parents
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support single parents re-entering the workforce with funding to access high-quality childcare.
Childcares: Finance
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that it is financially viable for childcare settings to offer places to three and four year-old children.
School Support Staff Negotiating Body
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the School Support Staff Negotiating Body will be operational.
School Support Staff Negotiating Body
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the independence of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.
School Support Staff Negotiating Body
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that recommendations made by the School Support Staff Negotiating Body are implemented.
School Support Staff Negotiating Body
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure collaboration between the School Support Staff Negotiation Body and academy trusts.
Special Educational Needs
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that education, health and care plans for SEND children are issued by local authorities within five weeks.
Special Educational Needs: North West
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support local authorities in the North West to (a) process and (b) issue education, health and care plans for SEND children.
Special Educational Needs
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) reduce class sizes and (b) provide focused support in maintained special schools.
Children: Poverty
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to include measures to support children in the deepest poverty in the forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy.