Children: Domestic Abuse
Commons · Question 36778 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average length of time was for children fleeing domestic abuse to be allocated a school place in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 7 Apr 2025
Children living in a refuge are, among a number of other categories of vulnerable and hard-to-place children, eligible for consideration under the fair access protocol. Where a child is referred to the protocol, they must be allocated a school place withi...