Question follow-through · 94608

Schools: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce policies requiring schools to give both parents equal access to information about their child’s education, regardless of parental separation status.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
27 Nov 2025
Answer
23 Dec 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce policies requiring schools to give both parents equal access to information about their child’s education, regardless of parental separation status.

  2. 27 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The department’s parental responsibility guidance sets out how schools should communicate with non-resident parents. The guidance states that ’school and local authority staff must treat all parents equally, unless a court order limits a parent’s ability ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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