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Integrated Care Boards: Special Educational Needs

Commons · Question 59056 · Tabled 11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 19 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Munira Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that statutory duties for safeguarding (a) children with special educational needs and disabilities and (b) other children are met, in the context of the NHS

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 19 Jun 2025

NHS England has asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to act primarily as strategic commissioners of health services and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structure. NHS England provided additional guidance to ICBs, National Hea...