Special Educational Needs
Commons · Question 41241 · Tabled 25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the time spent by schools in requesting assessments for EHC plans on the provision of SEND services.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 2 Apr 2025
Schools are required to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils they support and, in the case of mainstream settings, to use their best endeavours to make sure that a child or young person who has SEN gets the support they n...