Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62695

Children: Protection

Tabled: 25 June 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal DemocratNorth Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of the NHS to contribute to the provisions for Multi Agency Child Protection Teams in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced in Parliament on 17 December, will protect children at risk of abuse, by stopping vulnerable children from falling through the cracks in services. The bill will place a duty on local safeguarding partn...

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