Written questions

Special Educational Needs: Nurses

Commons · Question 48322 · Tabled 25 Apr 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 6 May 2025

Question

Asked by Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a national standard for paediatric nurse staffing levels in SEND schools.

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 6 May 2025

Individual schools are responsible for decisions about their staffing. Information on the school workforce, including the number of support staff employed by schools, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is avai...