Question follow-through · 2974
Schools: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure (a) safeguarding standards and (b) accountability are applied consistently across all types of schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure (a) safeguarding standards and (b) accountability are applied consistently across all types of schools.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2026
Answer published
This government remains committed to providing a clear and simple safeguarding framework for all schools. This is set out in our statutory safeguarding guidance, which all schools and colleges must have regard to. This guidance includes ‘Keeping Children ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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