Question follow-through · 88119
Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve support for children with speech and language challenges in schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve support for children with speech and language challenges in schools.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2025
Answer published
The department, in collaboration with NHS England, has extended the Early Language and Support for Every Child (ELSEC) programme to strengthen early identification and intervention for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) in early...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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