Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for how long the e-forum for SENCOs was unavailable; and what steps he is taking to ensure that that e-forum remains fully operational after its recent recovery.

The system which hosts the SENCO Forum initially stopped functioning on 18 November 2017. It was partially restored on 8 December 2017 but not all members had access to it. It subsequently failed again on 21 December 2017 and was back up and fully operational on 9 February 2018.

We will continue to work closely with the Chair of the Forum to secure the future of the SENCO Forum and ensure it is accessible to its users.