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date	07/05/2024
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April to Question 20456 on Special Educational Needs: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Counci, what estimate her Department has made of the number of local authorities that are not delivering their education, health and care function as a result of constraints upon the general fund.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	25087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Responsibility for local authority funding lies with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory responsibility to assess whether children and young people have special educational needs that require an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. EHC plans must be issued within twenty weeks of the needs assessment commencing so that children and young people can access the support they need.</p><p>In 2022, 49.2% of EHC plans were issued within the twenty week time limit. Where local authorities are failing to deliver, the department works with them using a range of improvement programmes and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) specialist advisers to address weaknesses. The department is also putting in place measures such as developing new national standards and a standardised EHC plan process to improve the SEND system so that, where an EHC plan is needed, they can be issued as quickly as possible to ensure children and young people can access the support they need.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 13/05/2024 16:33:30 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1687760

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of appointments for education, health and care plan assessments.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	13342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities have a statutory responsibility to assess whether children and young people have Special Educational Needs which require an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. EHC plans must be issued within twenty weeks of the needs assessment commencing so that children and young people can access the support they need. In 2022, there were 114,482 requests for an EHC needs assessment and 72,695 assessments took place. The number of assessments has been increasing year on year since EHC plans were introduced. As of January 2023, 517,049 children and young people have EHC plans.</p><p>Where local authorities are failing to deliver consistent outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Need and Disabilities (SEND), the department works with them using a range of improvement programmes and SEND specialist advisors to address weaknesses. Stockport is one of a number of local areas where the department is monitoring their EHC plan performance. The department is working with Stockport to improve their EHC plan quality as one of the key actions in the Local Area Partnerships ‘Accelerated Progress Plan’ following their most recent Ofsted Care Quality Commission inspection.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 19/02/2024 12:54:07 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1682152

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure local authorities have sufficient resources to deliver specialist education services for (a) children and (b) young people with visual impairment.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	9690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>Specialist education services and provision for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), including those with visual impairment, is funded from local authorities’ high needs budgets. High needs funding will increase to over £10.5 billion in 2024/25 which is an increase of over 60% from the 2019/20 allocations.</p><p>In December 2023 the department announced local authorities’ allocations of high needs funding through their 2024/25 dedicated schools grant. Stockport Council is due to receive an allocation of over £48 million, which is a cumulative increase of 28% per head through the national funding formula over the three years from 2021/22. This funding will help with the costs of delivering specialist education services for children and young people with visual impairment.</p><p>To support pupils with visual impairments in school, the department is reforming the system to support all children with SEND, which includes improved support in mainstream schools and securing the supply of specialist teachers trained in sensory impairment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 18/01/2024 17:55:58 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra