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Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure local authorities have equal access to funding for special educational needs and disabilities services.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
11 Nov 2024
Answer
12 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure local authorities have equal access to funding for special educational needs and disabilities services.

  2. 11 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision receive the righ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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