Question follow-through · 907333

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve safeguarding practices in nurseries and early years settings.

answeredDepartment 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

  1. 13 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve safeguarding practices in nurseries and early years settings.

  2. 19 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The safety and wellbeing of children in nurseries and early years settings is our priority and we continually monitor and review safeguarding requirements for early years settings to ensure children are kept as safe as possible. Where evidence shows that ...

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