Written questions

Children: Social Services

Commons · Question 120095 · Tabled 11 Mar 2026 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 23 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding, guidance, and training her Department plans to provide to local authorities to support the consistent and fair implementation of home-visit duties from the Children's Wellbeing and Scho

Answer

Answered by Josh MacAlister, 23 Mar 2026

The power for local authorities to request to visit a child in their home is intended to help the authority decide whether education is suitable for the child or, in the case of children subject to child protection processes, that it is in the best intere...