Question follow-through · 6639
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage and incentivise mainstream schools to use data-driven assessment tools to identify children’s hidden social, emotional, and mental health needs before they escal
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage and incentivise mainstream schools to use data-driven assessment tools to identify children’s hidden social, emotional, and mental health needs before they escal
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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12 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department is supporting mainstream schools to take a more evidence‑based approach to early identification of need, including social, emotional and mental health needs.We are developing National Inclusion Standards, backed by up to £15 million, which ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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