Question follow-through · 122521
Foster Care: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national register for foster parents.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Family Hubs: Voluntary Organisations · 30 Jun 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national register for foster parents.
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
Fostering services are required to maintain their own records and registers of approved foster carers in line with the National Minimum Standards and associated regulations.We recently published the ‘Renewing Fostering: Homes for 10,000 More Children’ act...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Family Hubs: Voluntary Organisations
30 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the role of volunteer-led family support services in supporting the objectives of the Best Start in Life and Family Hubs programme.