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Pupils: Bullying

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to protect neurodiverse pupils from bullying at school in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset and (c) England.

answeredAdam DanceDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 6 May 2025
Target answer date: 8 May 2025
Answer: 20 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to protect neurodiverse pupils from bullying at school in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset and (c) England.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The department is clear that schools must take a strong stand against all forms of bullying and should tackle bullying at the earliest opportunity to prevent it from escalating. All schools must have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms o...

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