Question follow-through · 17921
Special Educational Needs: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support young SEND people not in education, employment or training.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support young SEND people not in education, employment or training.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) receive the right support to succeed in their education and develop the skills they need as they move into adult life.The department is...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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