Children: Protection
Commons · Question 14583 · Tabled 30 Jun 2026 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 9 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Luke Akehurst
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 900535 on Children: Protection, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of creating a dedicated mechanism requiring relevant child risk
Answer
Answered by Josh MacAlister, 9 Jul 2026
Current powers and procedures including ‘Sarah’s Law’ allow both proactive and application-based disclosures of relevant information where this is necessary to protect a child, regardless of the recipient’s relationship to that child. Any disclosure must ...