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Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to grow the children’s health workforce.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Jan 2026
Target answer date
6 Jan 2026
Answer
9 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to grow the children’s health workforce.

  2. 6 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to raising the healthiest generation of children ever. A child health workforce that is fit for the future will be critical to delivering on this ambition.In spring, we will publish a 10 Year Workforce Plan, to create a workfor...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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