Question follow-through · 125085
Children: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues is taking to improve outcomes for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who go missing from care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues is taking to improve outcomes for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who go missing from care.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
The government takes the issue of any child going missing, either from home or from local authority care, extremely seriously. An unaccompanied child is entitled to the same support as any other looked after child, regardless of their immigration status.W...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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