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621886

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	date	26/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many parental complaints have been made to the Department for Education concerning special educational needs and disability in the last two academic years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL2692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>We receive correspondence from parents, including complaints. To differentiate complaints from other correspondence relating to special educational needs and disability would require a significant update to our correspondence management system.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/11/2016 15:19:25 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

621889

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	National Curriculum Tests
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they are reviewing the experiences of children who took their standard assessment tests in the last year and who raised problems of inaccessibility.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL2695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2016 answer text <p>National Curriculum tests are designed to be as accessible as possible to all pupils. They undergo an exhaustive three year development process, entailing several stages of expert review and trialling with pupils. When developing the tests, the Standards and Testing Agency adheres to the principles of universal design set out in Ofqual’s “Guidance on the Principles of Language Accessibility in National Curriculum Assessments”, which has been attached to this answer.</p><p> </p><p>The assessments which we have introduced this year have a more challenging expected standard to align with a new National Curriculum which sets expectations to match the best-performing education systems around the world. It is right that we set high aspirations for our children - previous expectations were simply too low and too many pupils who met the old standard did not go on to achieve good GCSEs.</p><p> </p><p>We are aware that this year’s English reading test was perceived as being particularly challenging for some pupils. We have listened to the feedback which we have received from schools and are working to improve the test experience for pupils in future years.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/11/2016 15:39:47 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash attachment 1 file name HL2695 Attachment - Guidance on the Principles of Language Accessibility in National Curriculum Assessments.pdf title Guidance on the Principles of Language Accessibili
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie