Question follow-through · 24612
Special Educational Needs: West Sussex
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the completion rates for EHCP applications within 20 weeks in West Sussex County Council.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the completion rates for EHCP applications within 20 weeks in West Sussex County Council.
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jan 2025
Answer published
It is important that, where required, education, health and care (EHC) plan assessments are progressed promptly and, if needed, plans are issued as quickly as possible so that children and young people can access the support they need.The department knows...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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