Special Educational Needs

(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents of children with SEND she has met with since her appointment as Secretary of State.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 19th December 2017

My Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State engages with a wide range of people, including parents of children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) and teachers.

Teachers are responsible and accountable for the progress and development of the pupils in their class, so every teacher is a teacher of pupils with SEND.

The remit of the Minister for Children and Families, whose remit includes SEND policy, has regular engagement with parents of pupils with SEND and with teachers. Such contact has, for example, included a SEND roundtable with parents and teachers on 12 September and a meeting with the National Network of Parent Carer Forums on 19 July.

Regular engagement is crucial in informing our thinking about how best to strengthen the systems for supporting children with SEND to achieve their full potential.

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