Question follow-through · 5404
Special Educational Needs: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider developing a national workforce plan to support councils and other bodies to determine resources for future SEND provision needs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 1 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2026 · 37 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider developing a national workforce plan to support councils and other bodies to determine resources for future SEND provision needs.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2026
Answer published
The department is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms, including delivery of the Experts at Hand offer and strengthening joint workforce planning...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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