Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s consultation entitled Guide for children and young people: Stable Homes, Built on Love, published on 2 February 2023, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating funding under the Families First for Children Pathfinder to York.

The Families First for Children pathfinder will work with up to 12 local areas to co-design and deliver end-to-end service reform, implementing new Family Help services, child protection arrangements and support for kinship care. In September 2023, the department will launch the first wave of Pathfinders. These areas have not yet been selected. Further information on the selection of the local areas will be available shortly.