Question follow-through · 121892
Special Educational Needs: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will conduct focus groups in the East Midlands with individuals who need equality adjustments to share their opinions in a non-written manner on the SEND Reform White Paper.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will conduct focus groups in the East Midlands with individuals who need equality adjustments to share their opinions in a non-written manner on the SEND Reform White Paper.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2026
Answer published
On Monday 23 February, we launched a full 12‑week consultation on our special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms because we want to hear directly from people across the country who have an interest in these reforms.To do that, we are buildi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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