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Special Educational Needs: Glastonbury and Somerton

Asked by Sarah DykeLiberal DemocratDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 11 June 2026UIN 7212

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her department holds on the number of pupils with an EHCP in Glastonbury and Somerton, who had a special school as their first preference and were subsequently allocated a place in a mainstream settin

Answered by Georgia Gould

Placements at special schools are usually made through education, health and care (EHC) plans. The department does not hold figures on whether a mainstream setting named on an EHC plan was the setting preferred by the parents of the child.

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