Question follow-through · 103672
Schools: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure parents with parental responsibility are consistently included in school communications and decision-making.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure parents with parental responsibility are consistently included in school communications and decision-making.
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2026
Answer published
Anyone who is a parent, as recognised under education law, can participate in their child’s education and there is a general principle that pupils are to be educated in accordance with the wishes of their parents. Section 9 of the Education Act 1996 can b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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