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Special Educational Needs

Asked by Iqbal MohamedIndependentDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 18 June 2026UIN 8866

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Department intends to use to determine the threshold for (a) an Education, Health and Care needs assessment and (b) the issuing of an Education, Health and Care plan under the proposed reforms

Answered by Georgia Gould

I refer my hon. Friend, the member for Dewsbury and Batley to the response of 9 June 2026 to Question 2528.

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