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Brain: Injuries

Commons · Question 100405 · Tabled 16 Dec 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 23 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are being taken to improve early identification of cognitive, behavioural, and emotional needs arising from acquired brain injury in children, particularly within school settings.

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 23 Dec 2025

Children who have had a brain injury can be affected in different ways. Some brain injuries will result in a special educational need (SEN) or a medical need, whilst others may affect a child in other ways. In whatever way a brain injury manifests, it is ...