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Special Educational Needs: Home Education

Asked by Iqbal MohamedIndependentDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 18 July 2025UIN 66795

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) SEND advocacy organisations and (b) special school leaders on (i) attendance, (ii) attainment and (iii) wellbeing for students with SEND who spend part of their education learning from home.

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 parents and carers on a wide variety of issues, including through weekly engagement sessions via webinars, meetings and visits. We also conduct roundtables with charities and campaigners, the most recent of which was in June.

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

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