Question follow-through · 24472
Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on children and young people with selective mutism, broken down by (a) age, (b) local authority, (c) education, health and care plan status, (d) primary and secondary type of spec
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on children and young people with selective mutism, broken down by (a) age, (b) local authority, (c) education, health and care plan status, (d) primary and secondary type of spec
7 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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7 Sept 2026
Answer published
The department does not hold information on the number of children and young people with selective mutism and is therefore unable to provide the breakdowns requested.Effective early identification and intervention is critical to improving outcomes for chi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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