Question follow-through · 106667
Pre-school Education: Sleep
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the changes to the EYFS to include safer sleep will be laid as a statutory instrument.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the changes to the EYFS to include safer sleep will be laid as a statutory instrument.
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2026
Answer published
The early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework, which 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 guidance here: https://www.nhs.uk/condi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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