Special Educational Needs: Schools

(asked on 10th February 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the total number of special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) in all schools.


Answered by
Catherine McKinnell Portrait
Catherine McKinnell
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 18th February 2025

There were 20,346 special educational needs co-ordinators employed by state-funded schools in England in November 2023, which is the latest data available.

Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

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