Question follow-through · 2039
Offences against Children: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that survivors of historic abuse are supported in a trauma-informed manner when approaching local authorities for (a) information and (b) redress.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2026 · 17 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
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that survivors of historic abuse are supported in a trauma-informed manner when approaching local authorities for (a) information and (b) redress.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse highlighted cases where records had been destroyed in accordance with the retention policies in place at the time, and the absence of those records subsequently hindered police investigations into allegation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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