Question follow-through · 81700
Special Educational Needs: Private Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support specialist independent SEND schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support specialist independent SEND schools.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
Independent special schools can play an important role in the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system, particularly in meeting the needs of children and young people with highly complex needs. We recognise the expertise and value that m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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