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988429

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for including specific provisions for (1) dyslexia, and (2) other long-term difficulties with literacy, in the Equality Act 2010 in order to improve the provision of assistance for people with such conditions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Addington
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL10628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 provides protection for any person with a condition that meets the Act’s definition of disability – that is, “a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-day activities.”</p><p> </p><p>The 2010 Act does not, except in a few specific instances, mention by name the conditions that automatically fall within the definition of disability.</p><p> </p><p>This is because in most cases, it is <em>the impact on the person’s life that is the qualifying criteria rather than the condition itself</em>. The only specified disabilities in the Act are <em>Cancer</em>, <em>HIV</em> and <em>Multiple</em> <em>Sclerosis</em>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/10/2018 16:09:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

1029356

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times a tribunal (a) has been required to meet to consider amendments, (b) found in favour of the application for amendment and (c) decided there would be no change to an Education, Health and Care Plan in each local authority area in each year since the plans were introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	204476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Due to the volume of data required to answer this question, the information is attached as an annex to this answer.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/01/2019 15:12:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name 204476 Annex to SEND PQ December 2018.xls title XLS Statistics Annex A
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

994197

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of appeals made to the special educational needs and disability tribunal in each year since 2014; and of those appeals, how many have found against local authorities in (a) Dulwich and West Norwood, (b) London and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	183449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>It has not been possible to provide an analysis of the figures at constituency level. The figures provided below are for the boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth, part of which fall within the Dulwich and Norwood constituency. Our monitoring and statistics show that 75% of appeals scheduled for a final hearing do settle or concede prior to the hearing date with a decision at hearing not required.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Appeals Made</p></td><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>LONDON</p></td><td><p>NATIONAL</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 – 15</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>784</p></td><td><p>3147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 – 16</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>791</p></td><td><p>3712</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 – 17</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>823</p></td><td><p>4725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18 (*)</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>1131</p></td><td><p>5679</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Disposed (**)</p></td><td><p>SOUTHWARK<br> Decided</p></td><td><p>SOUTHWARK<br> In Favour of Appellant</p></td><td><p>SOUTHWARK<br> Decisions Upheld</p></td><td><p>LAMBETH<br> Decided</p></td><td><p>LAMBETH<br> In Favour of Appellant</p></td><td><p>LAMBETH<br> Decisions Upheld</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>LONDON<br> Appeals Decided</p></td><td><p>LONDON<br> In favour of Appellant (***)</p></td><td><p>LONDON<br> Decisions upheld</p></td><td><p>National<br> Appeals Decided</p></td><td><p>National<br> In favour of Appellant (***)</p></td><td><p>National<br> Decisions upheld</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>288</p></td><td><p>252</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>788</p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td><p>270</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>883</p></td><td><p>780</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>385</p></td><td><p>343</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>1599</p></td><td><p>1418</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>359</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>2298</p></td><td><p>2035</p></td><td><p>263</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>* - 2017 - 18 figures have not yet been published and are currently being analysed and verified ready for publication on 13 December 2018 as part of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunals annual statistics</p><p><br> ** - Appeals disposed are within the same time period. In SEND the Tribunal hears appeals within 22 weeks of the appeal registered. Therefore, figures may be different from those registered in the period as those hearings could follow into the next reporting year.</p><p><br> *** - The Tribunal reports a successful appeal if one part or all of the appeal is found in favour of the parent or young person. HMCTS manual data collections show that 75% of appeals scheduled for a final hearing do settle or concede prior to the hearing date with a decision at hearing not required.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/10/2018 15:17:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1015519

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help health and social care providers to identify the special education needs of children in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	196291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires that clinical commissioning groups must work with local authorities in joint arrangements to support children and young people with special educational needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2016, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the inspector of health services, has joined with Ofsted in inspecting local areas on their effectiveness in fulfilling this joint commissioning duty, in addition to their role in inspecting health provision. All 152 local areas in England will be inspected over a period of five years, with written statements of action required where improvement is needed. Ofsted and the CQC have recently announced they will be revisiting all areas which had a written statement of action to ensure that necessary improvements have been made.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2018, NHS England published ‘Guidance for health services for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)’ developed with the Department, intended to help health commissioners and providers tackle the challenges involved in implementing joint commissioning of services for children and young people with special educational needs, including how to participate in education, health and care assessment and planning.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2018 the Department announced that we would be consulting on proposals for mandatory learning disability training for all health and care staff, which would include the needs of all age groups.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/12/2018 12:09:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1138072

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what outcomes NHS England plans to achieve for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities during the lifespan of the NHS Long Term Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	275749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Aspirations for children and young people are set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and the recently published Implementation Framework. Services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and learning disabilities and autism are separate workstreams under the new Children and Young People Transformation Board.</p><p>Funding to deliver the improvements set out in the Long Term Plan will be provided through clinical commissioning groups allocations and additional service development funding.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 275750 question first answered 15/07/2019 15:30:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1357289

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the backlog in needs assessments to ensure that disabled children can access the health support they need.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	52588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 18/10/2021 08:57:10 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1357330

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle backlog in needs assessments to ensure that disabled children can access effective health support.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	52629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 14/10/2021 09:16:21 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1357447

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the backlog in needs assessments for disabled children.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	53299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to enhance the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations (2014) make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 18/10/2021 09:15:24 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1357932

	registered interest
	date	23/09/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Disabled Children’s Partnerships report entitled Then there was silence, published on 10 September 2021, what steps he has taken to reduce the time taken for assessments of children’s conditions that have led to needs not being identified.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	53848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The SEND Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support. This could include training for staff, extra monitoring or engagement with partners to improve joint working.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 18/10/2021 09:11:22 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1358751

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Disabled Children’s Partnership Then There Was Silence, published on 10 September, which found that nearly three quarters of disabled children had seen their progress managing their condition regress during the pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>As part of COVID-19 recovery planning, we are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health and care services for disabled children. Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) who require additional provision will receive an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 make clear that local authorities must complete an EHC plan assessment within twenty weeks after the request is received unless exceptional circumstances apply. The Department for Education monitors local authority performance on EHC plan assessments to establish where there are long-standing delays and provide support.</p><p>The forthcoming Spending Review will set out the Government’s spending plans for health and social care for future years. We have announced an additional £5.4 billion for the National Health Service to support the COVID-19 response over the next six months. This includes £2 billion to reduce waiting times for patients, including disabled children.</p><p>We welcome the findings of the five reports by the Disabled Children’s Partnership between February and September 2021 and we are considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disabled children and their families.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall grouped question UIN HL2947 HL2948 question first answered 21/10/2021 11:27:05 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett