Question follow-through · 103417

Pre-school Education: Sleep

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made about the effectiveness of the Early years foundation stage statutory framework in offering sufficient guidance on safe sleep for babies.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 6 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 8 Jan 2026
Answer: 4 Feb 2026 · 29 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

6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made about the effectiveness of the Early years foundation stage statutory framework in offering sufficient guidance on safe sleep for babies.
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework, which all early years providers are required to follow, includes a requirement for babies to be placed down to sleep in line with the latest government safety guidanceThe Early Years qualificati...

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