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	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled, Teaching Children & Young People with Literacy Difficulties Practice Guidance February 2018, published by Warwickshire County Council, if he will make an assessment of the effect on students with Dyslexia of not providing those students with special support except in extreme circumstances.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	182143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The department have not made any formal assessment of this report. We are continuing to improve standards on literacy and to support schools and parents on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) including dyslexia.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are required under the Children and Families Act (2014) and the accompanying SEND Code of Practice to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils or students they support. Maintained schools are given notional SEN budgets and should use this to pay for support to children with dyslexia where required. Schools must use their best endeavours to make sure that a child with SEN gets the support they need - this means doing everything they can to meet children and young people’s SEN.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Act (2010) is clear that a person (P) has a disability if - (a) P has a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. All schools have duties under the Equality Act (2010) towards individual disabled children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 182142 182888 question first answered 30/10/2018 13:34:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

992702

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Dyslexia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of the statement by Warwickshire County Council in its document, Teaching Children & Young People with Literacy Difficulties Practice Guidance February 2018, on advice to parents in relation to the status of dyslexia as a disability that is not fully recognised in UK law.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	182142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The department have not made any formal assessment of this report. We are continuing to improve standards on literacy and to support schools and parents on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) including dyslexia.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are required under the Children and Families Act (2014) and the accompanying SEND Code of Practice to identify and address the special educational needs (SEN) of the pupils or students they support. Maintained schools are given notional SEN budgets and should use this to pay for support to children with dyslexia where required. Schools must use their best endeavours to make sure that a child with SEN gets the support they need - this means doing everything they can to meet children and young people’s SEN.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Act (2010) is clear that a person (P) has a disability if - (a) P has a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. All schools have duties under the Equality Act (2010) towards individual disabled children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 182143 182888 question first answered 30/10/2018 13:34:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson