Written Question
Monday 22nd November 2021
Asked by:
Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of waiting times for places in SEN schools on families.
Answered by Will Quince
The department does not collect information on waiting times for places in special schools.
Where a local authority identifies that a pupil requires a special school place (through the statutory education, health and care assessment process), they are statutorily required to secure the placement under the Children and Families Act 2014. Local authorities have a duty to arrange suitable education for any pupil of compulsory school age who, because of illness, permanent exclusion or other reasons, would not get a suitable education without such provision. Local authorities are required to keep the sufficiency of special educational provision in their area under review.
On 27 October 2021, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that an additional £2.6 billion has been made available over the next three years to deliver new places and improve existing provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. The government continues to invest in the Free Schools programme, through which 74 special and 50 alternative provision free schools have opened across the country since 2010, with 70 similar projects in the pipeline.
Written Question
Monday 22nd November 2021
Asked by:
Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will publish the average wait times for SEN school places as at 17 November 2021.
Answered by Will Quince
The department does not collect information on waiting times for places in special schools.
Where a local authority identifies that a pupil requires a special school place (through the statutory education, health and care assessment process), they are statutorily required to secure the placement under the Children and Families Act 2014. Local authorities have a duty to arrange suitable education for any pupil of compulsory school age who, because of illness, permanent exclusion or other reasons, would not get a suitable education without such provision. Local authorities are required to keep the sufficiency of special educational provision in their area under review.
On 27 October 2021, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that an additional £2.6 billion has been made available over the next three years to deliver new places and improve existing provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. The government continues to invest in the Free Schools programme, through which 74 special and 50 alternative provision free schools have opened across the country since 2010, with 70 similar projects in the pipeline.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
"Is it not the case that the additional money for adult social care is on a promise that might come along in a few years’ time, and that most local authorities will not see a penny immediately to tackle the immediate problems that they have in adult social care? That …..."Lloyd Russell-Moyle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
"While the Chancellor presented his Budget as the best Budget in 10 years, he seemed to forget what party has been in control of the country for 10 years. The reason why this miserable Budget is the best of all the miserable Budgets of the last 10 years is that …..."Lloyd Russell-Moyle - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
"So much for intergenerational levelling up—why have the Government cut the youth budget? It is the biggest cut in youth funding in 10 years...."Lloyd Russell-Moyle - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 22 Sep 2021
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"My hon. Friend is explaining exactly what Trevor Phillips described. He said that a regulator does not go to the final fine or nth degree immediately; it works with, issues guidelines or goes in to provide support, and sometimes that is compulsory. The amendment would provide for what our witnesses …..."Lloyd Russell-Moyle - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 22 Sep 2021
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"The hon. Lady is describing an event that went ahead—it was not cancelled. Some students had complained about it and the college has acknowledged the hurt, but it is not proposing to cancel it in the future. So what is the point?..."Lloyd Russell-Moyle - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 22 Sep 2021
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Eleventh sitting)
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