Question follow-through · 66071
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for encouraging children with SEND into mainstream schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 1 Aug 2025 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for encouraging children with SEND into mainstream schools.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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1 Aug 2025
Answer published
The department has published independently commissioned insight from the Delivering Better Value programme. This research suggests that, if the system were extensively improved, including using early intervention and better resourcing mainstream schools, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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