Question follow-through · 35714
Special Educational Needs: Academies and Maintained Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of trends in the level of children identified with special educational needs in (a) local authority maintained schools and (b) academies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of trends in the level of children identified with special educational needs in (a) local authority maintained schools and (b) academies.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
Information on the numbers of pupils in schools in England with education, health and care (EHC) plans, and special educational needs (SEN) without an EHC plan, by the type of school attended in the academic years 2015/16 to 2023/24, is available at: http...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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