Question follow-through · 87924
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure parents of children with SEND are informed of (a) their rights and (b) the protections available to them.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 34 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 ensure parents of children with SEND are informed of (a) their rights and (b) the protections available to them.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Children and Families Act 2014 requires local authorities to publish a Local Offer, setting out in one place information about provision they expect to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people in their area w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Special Educational Needs
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