Question follow-through · 100785
Learning Disability and Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase early identification of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase early identification of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2025
Answer published
The department knows that effective early identification and intervention is critical in improving the outcomes of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. To support settings to identify need early, the department is str...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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