Question follow-through · 673
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to reform the SEND system.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Teachers · 26 Jul 2024
- Pre-school Education · 30 Jul 2024
- Kinship Care: Education and Mental Health · 2 Sept 2024
- Care Leavers · 4 Oct 2024
- Department for Education: Consultants · 21 Nov 2024
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to reform the SEND system.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jul 2024
Answer published
For too long the education and care system has not meet the needs of all children, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve. This government’...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Teachers
26 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the amount of time teachers are allocated to undertake (a) planning, (b) preparation and (c) assessment.
Pre-school Education
30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to extend contracts for Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs in (a) the Liverpool City Region and (b) across England.
Kinship Care: Education and Mental Health
2 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the report by Kinship entitled Forgotten:?Support for kinship children’s education and mental health, published August
Care Leavers
4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve support for care leavers.
Department for Education: Consultants
21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
Education and Unemployment: Liverpool Walton
6 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of young people out of (a) work, (b) education and (c) training in Liverpool Walton constituency.
Primary Education: School Libraries
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of library provision in primary schools.
Special Educational Needs: Finance
11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding for SEND provision in (a) Liverpool and (b) England.
Children and Young People: Reading
25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to increase the number of children and young people reading for pleasure.
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
26 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to renew the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund.
Pupil Exclusions: Disability
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of disabled children not reinstated in school when an independent review panel has quashed a permanent exclusion.
Pupil Exclusions
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to make changes to the collection of data in relation to (a) suspensions and (b) permanent exclusions in England.