Question follow-through · 8556
Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) improve SEND provision and (b) recruit more educational psychologists.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) improve SEND provision and (b) recruit more educational psychologists.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
The department recognises that the current special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is not working and that, for far too long, too many children and families have been failed by it. This government is determined to address the problems and...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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