Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans to monitor and evaluate the impact of the SEND teacher training programme on inclusion, attendance and educational outcomes for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.

The department recently announced investment in a new package of training for staff in nurseries, schools and colleges, with the aim to ultimately improve support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.

The new training programmes will also go through stages of quality assurance to ensure they are aligned with evidence of best practice.

A full monitoring and evaluation plan will be developed, and officials are currently scoping options for an independent evaluation.

The new package builds on training that is already available, such as special educational needs and disabilities and inclusion content woven through the suite of national professional qualifications, for which evaluation is already underway and interim reports are available on GOV.UK.