Question follow-through · 8718
Children: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce delays in Ofsted registration for new children’s homes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce delays in Ofsted registration for new children’s homes.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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17 Jun 2026
Answer published
There has been a sustained and unprecedented rise in applications to register children’s homes, particularly in certain areas of the country such as the North West.In September 2025, in response to this rise Ofsted published their revised policy for prior...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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