Question follow-through · 95813
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of young people who have been off-rolled by schools and colleges while awaiting Education, Health and Care Plans in England.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of young people who have been off-rolled by schools and colleges while awaiting Education, Health and Care Plans in England.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The department does not hold data on the number of children or young people who have been off-rolled while waiting for an education, health and care plan assessment.This government is clear that off-rolling in any form is unacceptable, and we will continu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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