Question follow-through · 12972
Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure sufficient availability of early years childcare places for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure sufficient availability of early years childcare places for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2026
Answer published
The reforms outlined in ‘Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reform: putting children and young people first’ will give early years settings the training, evidence-based tools and expert input they need to welcome children with diverse needs...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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