Question follow-through · 19716
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her department is taking to help improve local authorities’ children’s services a) across the country and b) where children’s services teams are being transferred to new local authorities as a result
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2026 · 49 calendar days after tabling
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- Medical Records: Adoption · 28 Aug 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her department is taking to help improve local authorities’ children’s services a) across the country and b) where children’s services teams are being transferred to new local authorities as a result
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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3 Sept 2026
Answer published
We are delivering the biggest overhaul of children’s social care in a generation, investing significantly to support local authorities to improve services for children and families. Through the £2.4 billion Families First Partnership programme, we are hel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Medical Records: Adoption
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of not knowing the medical history of patients who have been adopted on those people.