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Special Educational Needs: Finance

Asked by Tahir AliLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 27 February 2026UIN 113150

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when will her planned timetable and proposed transitional funding for changes to SEND be communicated to schools.

Answered by Georgia Gould

The government set out its planned reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities system in the Schools White Paper published on 23 February 2026 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/every-child-achieving-and-thriving.

Further details on the distribution of that funding will be published in the due course.

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