Question follow-through · 99487
Adoption: Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support she is providing to adoptive families when attempting to return a child to care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support she is providing to adoptive families when attempting to return a child to care.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
Returning a child to care should only ever be a last resort. We recognise the significant emotional and practical strain adoptive parents can face, particularly when managing complex needs and trauma. Our priority is to keep families together wherever pos...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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