Question follow-through · 85731

Extracurricular Activities: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the safeguarding risks posed by extracurricular activity providers who fall outside statutory safeguarding requirements.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
30 Oct 2025
Answer
5 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the safeguarding risks posed by extracurricular activity providers who fall outside statutory safeguarding requirements.

  2. 30 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The government is committed to safeguarding children across all education settings, including extracurricular providers outside the statutory education and childcare system, referred to as out-of-school settings (OOSS).All OOSS have a legal duty of care t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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