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Special Educational Needs: Boarding Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that children with (a) complex SEND and (b) escalating behavioural needs have timely access to suitable residential education placements when local day settings are
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that children with (a) complex SEND and (b) escalating behavioural needs have timely access to suitable residential education placements when local day settings are
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to ensure there are sufficient school places for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).The department has published allocations for £740 million in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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