Question follow-through · 121036
Special Educational Needs: Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure access for pre-school children with additional needs to nursery places in the Poole constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure access for pre-school children with additional needs to nursery places in the Poole constituency.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2026
Answer published
We want every child, including those with additional needs, to be able to access a childcare setting where they can get the best start in life. The special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms we announced in February, will give early years set...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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