Question follow-through · 84191
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to help improve the quality of local authority children's social care services.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to help improve the quality of local authority children's social care services.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department has announced the biggest overhaul to children’s social care (CSC) in a generation, including increased investment and landmark legislation through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. From April 2025, we are making £500 million avail...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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