Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 14583
Children: Protection
Tabled: 30 June 2026
Answered: 9 July 2026
Question
Luke Akehurst
Labour — North Durham
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
Josh MacAlisterCurrent 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 ...
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