Special Educational Needs: Staff
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the total number of special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) in all schools.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
There were 20,346 special educational needs co-ordinators employed by state-funded schools in England in November 2023, which is the latest data available.
Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
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