Question follow-through · 54422
Foster Care: Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the foster to adopt pathway for (a) adopted children and (b) the stability of adoptive placements.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Further Education: Teachers · 4 Feb 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the foster to adopt pathway for (a) adopted children and (b) the stability of adoptive placements.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
Fostering to adopt, also known as early permanence, is a crucial way to offer children stability at a very early stage, preventing multiple moves in the care system. The department has provided funding of £250,000 in 2025/26 for Adoption England to promot...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Adoption
11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent meetings her Department has had with victims of forced adoptions in England.
First Aid: Curriculum
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there are plans to make first aid training a mandatory component of the national curriculum.