Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the SEND Review published on 29 March 2022 and his associated statement to the House of the same date, what his planned timetable is for additional educational psychologists to be in place supporting children and schools; and if he will make it his policy to provide hon. Members with regular updates on the number of educational psychologists in England who are working to support children and schools in the state sector.

The department has provided a further £10.3 million of funding to train over 200 more educational psychologists. Recruitment of the trainees will begin in September 2022, ready for the course to commence in September 2023, and trainees will graduate in 2026. Since 2020, the department has increased the number of educational psychologists whose training we fund from 160 to over 200 per academic year.