Question follow-through · 100433
Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of trends in the level of data on [a] met and [b] unmet need among [i] looked-after and [ii] previously looked after children.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of trends in the level of data on [a] met and [b] unmet need among [i] looked-after and [ii] previously looked after children.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The department monitors outcomes for looked-after and previously looked-after children through national statistics on education, health, and care leaver activity. While these datasets do not directly record met and unmet needs, they inform targeted interv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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