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Special Educational Needs

Asked by Afzal KhanLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 905873

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support students with special educational needs and disabilities.

Answered by Georgia Gould

By prioritising early intervention, training and inclusive support in mainstream schools, while ensuring special schools can support the most complex needs, we are expanding the capacity to deliver timely, consistent, high quality special educational needs and disabilities provision.

We are engaging with children, parents and experts on wider reforms.

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