Special Educational Needs
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of SEND pupils placed in mainstream schools due to a lack of available places in specialist settings.
Answered by Georgia Gould
Information on the number of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) by the setting they attend is shown in the following table: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/abcb598c-d065-4db8-960d-08de29f25240. Information is not held on the number of pupils with SEN attending mainstream schools due to a lack of available places in specialist settings.
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