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Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

Commons · Question 101511 · Tabled 18 Dec 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 12 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 85962 on Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making support for families available fro

Answer

Answered by Olivia Bailey, 12 Jan 2026

The department is committed to ensuring that all children, including deaf and hard of hearing children, have the best possible start in life. The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme aims to identify permanent moderate, severe, and profound deafness an...