Question follow-through · 99004
Offences against Children: Young Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to require schools and local authorities to record and centrally report anonymised data on allegations of child-on-child sexual abuse, the actions taken and case outcomes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jan 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to require schools and local authorities to record and centrally report anonymised data on allegations of child-on-child sexual abuse, the actions taken and case outcomes.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jan 2026
Answer published
Sexual abuse in any form is abhorrent and protecting children from this is an absolute priority for this government. ‘Working together to safeguard children’ is the statutory guidance which sets out the collaborative duties and responsibilities placed o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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