Written Question·Home Office·UIN 27049

Children: Protection

Tabled: 28 January 2025
Answered: 10 February 2025

Question

Mr Will Forster

Liberal DemocratWoking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle safeguarding issues relating to (a) children at risk of being removed from the UK in contravention of a court ruling and (b) other children with a foreign

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ 2023 is clear that, if at any time it is considered that a child may be in need or has suffered significant harm or is likely to do so, a referral should be made immediately to a local author...

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