| Heading: |
Social Services: Children |
| Question ID: |
1805811 |
| UIN: |
54466 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5119 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Natasha Irons
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| Asking Member handle: |
NDIrons
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@NDIrons
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the cost to the public purse of (a) increasing funding for early interventions and (b) conducting late-stage interventions in children’s social care. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4698 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Janet Daby
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| Answering Member handle: |
JanetDaby
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JanetDaby
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
This government recognises that early intervention improves outcomes and reduces overall public spending.In the 2023/24 financial year, local authorities’ gross expenditure on children and young people's services was £14.8 billion, a 12% increase in cash ... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |