Question follow-through · 118440
Children in Care: Missing Persons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is her Department taking to help reduce the number of children in care that go missing.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 19 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
5 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is her Department taking to help reduce the number of children in care that go missing.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
The government takes the issue of any child going missing, from home or care, extremely seriously. Local safeguarding partners should work together to reduce the chances of children going missing and respond effectively when they do. The department has pr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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