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Special Educational Needs: Yeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support (a) schools and (b) local authorities to provide education, care and health plans for children with special educational needs in Yeovil constituency.

answeredAdam DanceDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
11 Sept 2025
Answer
6 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support (a) schools and (b) local authorities to provide education, care and health plans for children with special educational needs in Yeovil constituency.

  2. 11 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The duty to conduct education, health and care (EHC) needs assessments, and to issue EHC plans if required, rests with the local authority.The department monitors and works closely with local authorities that have issues with the EHC needs assessment and ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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