Question follow-through · 27156
Educational Psychology: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the proposed expansion of the educational psychologist workforce set out in The Schools White Paper 2026, what consideration has she given to the potential merits of measures to improve the re
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the proposed expansion of the educational psychologist workforce set out in The Schools White Paper 2026, what consideration has she given to the potential merits of measures to improve the re
7 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2026
Answer published
The department is investing £26 million to train at least 200 educational psychologists per year from 2026/27, with further investment to train more over the following three years, subject to future spending reviews. This is in addition to the £31 million...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Special Educational Needs
7 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards her department will put in place to ensure specialist SEND capacity is not reduced before mainstream inclusion capacity has been established.
Special Educational Needs: Reform
7 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of risk of SEND reforms reducing access to appropriate provision for children and young people with the most complex needs.
Special Educational Needs
11 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration has she given to the potential merits of providing parents and carers with a statutory route of redress where provision specified in an Individual Support Plan is not delivered.
Special Educational Needs
11 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the administrative workload on local authorities, schools, families and the SEND Tribunal of operating parallel SEND systems during the transition to the proposed new system; and
Extended Services: Recruitment and Training
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools to recruit and train staff to deliver wraparound childcare, particularly where roles involve split and part-time-only working patterns.
Wraparound Services
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department provides to schools to (a) collaborate and (b) cluster to deliver wraparound childcare where individual schools are unable to provide adequate capacity.