Question follow-through · 126977
Further Education: Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to expand supported internships to further education students on individual support plans.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 8 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 expand supported internships to further education students on individual support plans.
15 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
The department is consulting on proposals to reform the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system, and you can access the consultation here: https://consult.education.gov.uk/send-strategy-division/send-reform-putting-children-and-young-peop...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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