Question follow-through · 2256
Special Educational Needs: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for SEND services in schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2024 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for SEND services in schools.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2024
Answer published
For too long the education and care system has not met the needs of all children, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Parents and carers have struggled to get their children the support they need, with many children ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Remote Education: Lifelong Learning Entitlement
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Disability: Young People
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Teachers: Workplace Pensions
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2025 to Question 51054 on Teachers: Workplace Pensions, what progress has been made on reducing the number of teachers waiting for compensation since 30 May 2025.
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