Children in Care: Personal Records
2026-05-17 · Department for Education · 2025 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms exist to ensure that local authorities provide timely access to historical care records for former looked-after children who make such requests.
Answer
Ministers have considered the implications of historic safeguarding failures on policies. In April 2025, the government set out the immediate and longer-term steps it is taking to act on the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abu...