Question follow-through · 7019
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Oral Statement: Enduring Relationships Strategy for Children’s Social Care of 4 June 2026, what estimate she has made of the number of additional foster carers required to deliver the Government
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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- Children in Care: Lancashire · 12 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Oral Statement: Enduring Relationships Strategy for Children’s Social Care of 4 June 2026, what estimate she has made of the number of additional foster carers required to deliver the Government
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
'Renewing Fostering: homes for 10,000 more children’ commits to creating 10,000 more foster placements by April 2029, providing a foster placement for every child who needs one. Using Ofsted trends in new approval and deregistration rates of foster househ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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