Disability: Children

(asked on 5th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, what steps his Department is taking to measure how effective the additional funding is in tackling backlogs in disabled children’s health service assessments.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 15th November 2021

The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement constantly monitor data in order to help to maximise performance and tackle backlogs.

We are committed to ensuring greater stability of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services as we enter the recovery phase following the COVID-19 outbreak. NHS England and NHS Improvement will monitor local areas’ performance in delivering SEND services, including those that had weaknesses before the COVID-19 outbreak and those that are struggling to respond to the challenges that the COVID-19 outbreak has brought.

In April, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission re-started their revisit programme of areas where SEND services need to improve and which received a Written Statement of Action. Full inspections resumed in June.

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