Question follow-through · 907329

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to update guidance on handling complaints in children's social care.

answeredSarah GreenDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 13 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 19 Jan 2026
Answer: 19 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to update guidance on handling complaints in children's social care.
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jan 2026
Answer published
Departmental officials will be meeting with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman to better understand issues with the complaints process, but at present we are not planning to update the complaints guidance. We will, however, publish updated sta...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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