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Foster Care: Surrey Heath

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with Surrey County Council on promoting foster caring in Surrey Heath constituency.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
7 Nov 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 15 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with Surrey County Council on promoting foster caring in Surrey Heath constituency.

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    This government is committed to working in partnership with local authorities to recruit more foster carers and committed an additional £15 million in the budget. This funding is to start work to ensure every local authority has access to a hub and to emb...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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