Question follow-through · 115611
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure children in the foster care system are able to access suitable foster carers in their local area.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2026 · 8 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
24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure children in the foster care system are able to access suitable foster carers in their local area.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2026
Answer published
The department is committed to ensuring that children can access suitable foster placements close to home. Our fostering reforms will expand national capacity and strengthen regional collaboration, improve recruitment and matching processes, and assist lo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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