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Special Educational Needs: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve recruitment and retention of multi-sensory impairment teachers.

answeredCameron ThomasDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
24 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve recruitment and retention of multi-sensory impairment teachers.

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    It is the responsibility of local authorities, schools, and further education (FE) settings to commission appropriately qualified staff to support the education of children and young people in their area.To teach a class of pupils with sensory impairments...

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