Question follow-through · 49884
Special Educational Needs: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that all schools within a local authority accept children with Education, Health and Care Plans.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that all schools within a local authority accept children with Education, Health and Care Plans.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The Children and Families Act 2014 places a duty on schools named by a local authority on an education, health and care plan to admit a child. The local authority must have consulted with the school and carefully considered any views expressed before nami...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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