Question follow-through · 76735
Family Courts: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure children are adequately safeguarded in family courts.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 32 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure children are adequately safeguarded in family courts.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Children Act 1989 requires the court to have the child’s welfare as its paramount consideration when making a decision about the child’s upbringing. Any decisions the family courts make about the future arrangements for children are based on this fund...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Sexual Offences: Sentencing
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