Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's SEND Review, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed reforms to alternative provision on children without SEND needs placed in alternative provision.

The reforms set out in our recently published SEND and AP green paper will ensure that all children and young people with challenging behaviour, and those with health needs, will receive appropriate targeted support in mainstream settings or access to time-limited or transitional places in alternative provision schools. This means that all children will receive the right support, in the right place and at the right time, regardless of whether they have SEND.