Question follow-through · 15357
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the commissioning of local children services to ensure that every young person with SEND has access to (a) timely and (b) quality transition support.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the commissioning of local children services to ensure that every young person with SEND has access to (a) timely and (b) quality transition support.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
For too long the education and care system has not met the needs of all children and young people, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve.T...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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