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Special Educational Needs: Detention and Training Orders

Asked by Munira WilsonLiberal DemocratMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 3 April 2025UIN 41973

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 27891 on Detention and Training Orders: Children, how many and what proportion of the children identified as having SEND (a) had and (b) did not have (i) an EHC plan and (ii) other special needs support.

Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin

Children’s special educational needs are assessed when entering custody, and are regularly reviewed.

To obtain the information requested, it would be necessary to undertake a detailed review of individual records, which could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.

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