Question follow-through · 95133
Children in Care: Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate has been made of the number of reports of child (a) sexual (b) criminal exploitation safeguarding failings at (1) private (2) local authority children’s homes in England since 2015.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate has been made of the number of reports of child (a) sexual (b) criminal exploitation safeguarding failings at (1) private (2) local authority children’s homes in England since 2015.
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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12 Dec 2025
Answer published
All registered children’s homes, whether privately run or local authority-operated, must notify Ofsted, the regulator for children’s social care, about certain serious incidents that happen to children in their care living with them and what they have don...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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