Question follow-through · 123428
Nurseries: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards are in place to ensure that nurseries undertake adequate pre-employment checks to prevent people with a history of abusive behaviour from working with children; and what steps her Department is
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards are in place to ensure that nurseries undertake adequate pre-employment checks to prevent people with a history of abusive behaviour from working with children; and what steps her Department is
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2026
Answer published
Safer recruitment is a core part of safeguarding in early years settings. The ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’ (EYFS) statutory framework requires providers to have clear and robust recruitment procedures in place to ensure that only suitable people work wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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