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Special Educational Needs

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.

answeredDepartment for Education

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
7 Sept 2026
Target answer date
9 Sept 2026
Answer
16 Sept 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 9 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The government wants to make sure that children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can receive the support they need to achieve and thrive in their local school, but we know that there will always be a vital role for special schools an...

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Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.

Later records

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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.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

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

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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.

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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.