Special Educational Needs

(asked on 15th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has a mechanism in place to be notified of instances when a local authority does not issue a final statement of special educational needs within the statutory time limit of 26 weeks.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 22nd January 2015

Data is collected annually from all local authorities on the numbers of final statements issued for children with special educational needs (SEN).

Guidance to local authorities on the process and timescales for carrying out statutory SEN assessments and issuing final statements of SEN is provided in the 2001 ‘Special Educational Needs Code of Practice’ and the statutory timescales are also set out in ‘The Education (Special Educational Needs) (England) (Consolidation) Regulations 2001’.

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