Question follow-through · 100059
Social Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that councils with above-average demand for children’s social care receive adequate resources under the revised needs-based formula.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jan 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that councils with above-average demand for children’s social care receive adequate resources under the revised needs-based formula.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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2 Jan 2026
Answer published
The existing formula, last updated in 2013/14, is significantly outdated and no longer reflects current levels of need. Since then, many local authorities have experienced substantial changes in deprivation, child population density, and other factors tha...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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