Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the number of teachers for the deaf.

On 29 March 2022, the department published the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision Green Paper, which set out our plans to improve the experience and outcomes for children and young people with SEND, including those with Sensory Impairment.

The department carefully considered all the feedback received through the thousands of responses to the consultation and in the many events that took place during the 16-week consultation period. A full response was published on 2 March 2023, in the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan.