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Special Educational Needs: Secondary Education

Commons · Question 48069 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 9 May 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps her Department has taken to assess the consistency of SEND policy implementation in secondary schools; and what mechanisms exist to hold schools accountable where legal duties towards neurodiv

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 9 May 2025

The department’s expectations for high quality, inclusive education are enforced through inspection by Ofsted. Ofsted’s proposed new framework for inspection of education settings will be informed by their public consultation, which closed on 28 April and...