Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that vision impaired pupils have fair and equal access to learning at home during the covid-19 school closures.

Children with vision impairment may be vulnerable children, such as those with education health and care plans, and as such were strongly encouraged to attend school. Where pupils with vision impairment were not in school we expected schools to provide suitable remote learning materials.

We are funding National Star College to provide specialist online training on assistive technology to strengthen remote education provision for pupils with special educational needs.