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Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of Safety Valve agreements on the delivery of local authorities' statutory obligations to children and young people with SEND.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
24 Jul 2024
Target answer date
26 Jul 2024
Answer
31 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of Safety Valve agreements on the delivery of local authorities' statutory obligations to children and young people with SEND.

  2. 26 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    Local authorities high needs budgets are under significant pressure, and the department is considering what support and reforms are needed to secure better outcomes and experiences for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilit...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Private Education

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase SEND provision for pupils moving from private to state schools.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Special Educational Needs

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1512 on Special Educational Needs, how her Department monitors whether the Safety Valve programme leads to improvements in SEND service.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Special Educational Needs

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1512 on Special Educational Needs, how her Department monitors whether local authorities are meeting their obligations to fulfil statutory duties to children a

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Special Educational Needs

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1512 on Special Educational Needs, if her Department will publish a list of local authorities that have breached obligations to fulfil statutory duties to chil

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Special Educational Needs

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1512 on Special Educational Needs, when her Department last undertook a review of the Safety Valve agreement with Norfolk County Council; and if she will publi

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Pay

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of levels of pay in further education institutions on recruitment and retention.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Finance

30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing 16 to 19 funding to colleges to help fund pay deals.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Childcare: Recruitment

3 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of low pay on early years childcare sector recruitment.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Norfolk

11 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 2948 on Special Educational Needs, what estimate she has made of when the review of Norfolk County Council's Safety Valve agreement will be completed.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Child Poverty Taskforce

17 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions on the Child Poverty Engagement Plan in which regions the Child Poverty Taskforce has had with (a) devolved governments, (b) elected mayors, (c) academia, (d) businesses and (e) civil society.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Child Poverty Taskforce

17 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many meetings the Child Poverty Taskforce has had with children and families living in poverty.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children and Families: Poverty

17 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the methodology for engaging with children and families living in poverty under the Child Poverty Strategy.