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Written Question
Early Years Ministerial Group On Family Support
Monday 24th June 2019

Asked by: Andrea Leadsom (Conservative - South Northamptonshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the recommendations of the Inter Ministerial Group on early years family support have been agreed by his Department; and what further steps he has taken to improve early years family support.

Answered by Nadhim Zahawi

The Early Years Family Support Ministerial Group is considering how the government can improve the coordination and cost-effectiveness of early years family support and identify gaps in available provision. The group will make recommendations to relevant Secretaries of State in due course.


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