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Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Education, Health and Care Plans include (a) measurable and (b) enforceable targets.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
1 Sept 2025
Answer
4 Sept 2025 · 45 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Education, Health and Care Plans include (a) measurable and (b) enforceable targets.

  2. 1 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Local authorities must ensure that education, health and care (EHC) plans comply with the Children and Families Act 2014 and the special educational needs and disability (SEND) code of practice.The code states that EHC plans must detail the outcomes sough...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Holiday Activities and Food Programme

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Holiday Play Schemes

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase the level of funding for the Holiday activities and food programme for children in (a) rural areas and (b) West Dorset constituency.

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Holiday Play Schemes

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Special Educational Needs: Reform

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Pupils: Radicalism

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to educate schoolchildren about the dangers of far-right extremist ideologies online.

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Pupils: Radicalism

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to educate schoolchildren about the dangers of radicalisation ideologies online in rural areas.

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Pre-school Education: West Dorset

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve support for children transitioning from early years education to primary school in West Dorset constituency.

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Pre-school Education: West Dorset

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of moving from early years to primary school on children in West Dorset constituency.

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Special Educational Needs

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to maintain the legal right to additional support for children with SEND.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pre-school Education: West Dorset

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase support for schools to assist children in the early stages of primary education in West Dorset constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education

8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of (a) national progression rates from foundation to other low-level courses in colleges and (b) employment outcomes from those rates.