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Special Educational Needs: Holiday Play Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with local authorities to broaden holiday club access to SEND children and families during holiday periods.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
9 Sept 2024
Answer
13 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with local authorities to broaden holiday club access to SEND children and families during holiday periods.

  2. 9 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    This government is determined to ensure that there is high quality, accessible childcare for all children and families, including children with additional needs. The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme funding is primarily for school-aged children...

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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: Breakfast Clubs

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Admissions

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that there are a sufficient number of local places for students that choose to stay in full-time education beyond the age of 16.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Admissions

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that further education providers proactively adjust their admissions (a) criteria and (b) numbers to ensure that local demand is met for students that choose to stay in full-t

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Childcare

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of SEND childcare requirements on parents in full employment; and what steps she plans to take to help support these parents.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Transport

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Young People: Mobile Phones

11 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to take steps to (a) understand more about the relationship between smartphone use and young people’s mental health, (b) reduce any negative impact of those devices on young people’

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Care Homes and Foster Care

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Higher Education: Liability

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) help clarify the duty of care owed by higher education providers to their students and (b) to ensure such standards are met.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Higher Education: Liability

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will meet with representatives of the ForThe100 to discuss the duty of care owed by higher education providers to their students.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs: Visual Impairment

6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of Vision Impairment education services; and what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations proposed by th

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Assistive Technology

6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all further education colleges comply with (a) accessibility regulations on (i) access to assistive technology and (ii) the use of accessible design in learning resources

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Higher Education: Liability

7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will meet with members of ForThe100 to discuss duty of care owed by higher education providers to their students.