Question follow-through · 51707
Sign Language: Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce sign language into early years planning for deaf children.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce sign language into early years planning for deaf children.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
High quality early years education is crucial to children’s development, health and life chances. The department is committed to ensuring that all children, including children with disabilities such as deafness, have the best possible start in life as par...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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