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Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) communications between parents of children with special educational needs and local authorities are transparent and (b) authorities are accountable in their deci
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) communications between parents of children with special educational needs and local authorities are transparent and (b) authorities are accountable in their deci
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for identifying, assessing and meeting the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and should communicate openly with children, young people and their families.The SEND Co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Special Educational Needs: Complaints
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Special Educational Needs: Complaints
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