Children: Social Services

(asked on 26th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason his Department did not hold meetings with concerned charities when it received the letter of September 2018 on his Department's myth-busting document from experts and organisations.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 1st April 2019

The publication of the myth-busting guide, published in July 2018, was intended to clarify certain areas of the statutory guidance which practitioners had said were ambiguous or had given rise to incorrect assumptions about what is permissible.

When we received the letter from children’s rights organisations and experts we replied to make clear that nothing in the guide sought to alter legislation and that statutory guidance remained in force.

Our statutory guidance continues to set out how local authorities should operate in order to provide the best services for vulnerable children and young people and make sure everyone is given the chance to succeed.

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