Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Child of the North research published in 2022.

The department takes an evidenced based approach and continues to incorporate the most up to date and robust research when developing policy. The department has noted the publication of the Child of the North Report and its recommendations.

As the government’s Levelling Up White Paper and recent Schools White Paper outline, the department is committed to levelling up education standards and increasing capacity in the parts of the country that need this most.

The government’s special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision (AP) Green Paper, published on Tuesday 29 March, sets out its vision for a single, national SEND and AP system that will introduce new standards in the quality of support given to children across education, health and care.