Special Educational Needs: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to report metrics on the impact of regional improvement for standards and excellence on (a) progress, (b) attendance and (c) exclusion rates for pupils with SEND in mainstream schools.
Answered by Georgia Gould
Regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams are a key part of the government‘s work to drive up education standards in schools across England. Eligibility for RISE targeted intervention is identified through Ofsted inspections and as of September 2025 there are 367 schools in the programme. Data on headline outcomes for all pupils in targeted RISE intervention schools, including attainment, absence and suspension and permanent exclusion rates, were published in September 2025. An impact evaluation of the programme, measuring change over time in key success measures for schools in the targeted RISE intervention programme set against a suitable group of comparator schools, will be carried out in due course. This will include further breakdowns by characteristics, such as for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). There are no plans to report routinely on metrics specifically related to pupils with SEND ahead of this.
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