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Special Educational Needs: Reform

Asked by Mary GlindonLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 15 July 2025UIN 66162

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to consult charities on SEND reform.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and I continue to engage with special educational needs and disabilities charities, stakeholders and parent carers, and are conducting weekly engagement sessions via webinars, meetings and visits. We are also engaging via roundtables with the voluntary, charity and community sectors, the most recent being in June 2025.

These engagements will carry on throughout the White Paper consultation period into the autumn and beyond.

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