Question follow-through · 88489
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of creating a national fostering strategy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of creating a national fostering strategy.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
Foster care is one of my top priorities as Minister. The department is already investing £25 million of transformation funding for foster care, which is additional to the £15 million announced at the Autumn Budget covering the 2025/26 financial year. We...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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