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Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs

Asked by Lisa SmartLiberal DemocratDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 29 May 2025UIN 50954

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of local authority funded early years places for children with SEND under the age of 9 months.

Answered by Stephen Morgan

The department does not fund places for children under the age of nine months. This is because the earliest a child can take up their government-funded place is the term after a child turns nine months old.

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