Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133561, what organisation or organisations received the contract related to a new SEND school workforce contract, the procurement for which began in December 2017.
We are in the final stages of a procurement process to better equip the schools workforce to support pupils with all types of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND). We expect to award the contract in April and will announce the contractor at that point.