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Adoption: Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support adoptive families from being subject to legal action when attempting to return a child to care.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
17 Dec 2025
Answer
17 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support adoptive families from being subject to legal action when attempting to return a child to care.

  2. 17 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The department knows that some adoptive families do not get the support they need when in crisis. Rather than being supported, they experience blame and criticism of their parenting approach.Adoption England are working with their local authority partner ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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