Special Educational Needs: Codes of Practice
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the consultation entitled SEND reform: putting children and young people first, what estimate she has made of the cost to schools, local authorities and other providers of complying with new duties arising from revisions to the SEND Code of Practice.
Answered by Georgia Gould
We are investing over £4 billion in advance of legislation to begin to deliver special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reform, enabling early years settings, schools and colleges to prepare and build capacity. This includes a £1.6 billion Inclusive Mainstream Fund over three years to equip settings to embed inclusive practice and build their universal offer to become inclusive by design.
Updating the 0-25 SEND Code of Practice is essential to ensure it reflects the changes we are proposing across the SEND system. The Code will be the primary platform for setting out the duties and standards that enable settings to take an inclusive and consistent approach to meeting the needs of children and young people with SEND. Changes to the Code will be put out for full public consultation in due course.
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