Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to publish a specialist special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) workforce strategy as part of the planned national SEND and alternative provision implementation strategy.

The department remains committed to publishing the government’s response to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper consultation in a national SEND and AP improvement plan in due course. This will set out the government’s response to the consultation, including how we are supporting the workforce to meet the needs of children and young people. The department will not be commenting on individual policy proposals ahead of the response being issued.