Question follow-through · 100155
Special Educational Needs: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to expand SEND Hubs in schools in West Dorset.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 31 Dec 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to expand SEND Hubs in schools in West Dorset.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Dec 2025
Answer published
The department is committed to encouraging schools and local authorities to set up resourced provision and special educational needs (SEN) units to increase capacity in mainstream schools and is working with the sector to increase capacity and extend best...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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