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Special Educational Needs: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the provision of school transportation for children with Special Educational Needs.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
19 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the provision of school transportation for children with Special Educational Needs.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The department’s home-to-school travel policy aims to make sure no child is prevented from accessing education by a lack of transport. Local authorities must arrange free home-to-school travel for eligible children. This includes children of compulsory sc...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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