Question follow-through · 126517
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to ensure that children and young people will have a right to be educated in a specialist placement if their complex needs cannot be met in a mainstream educational setting.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to ensure that children and young people will have a right to be educated in a specialist placement if their complex needs cannot be met in a mainstream educational setting.
16 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
In line with our proposed reforms, children with complex needs, who need a Specialist Provision Package(s) and a placement within a specialist setting, will have their provision guaranteed in their education health and care plan. Specialist Provision Pack...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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