Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans the Government has to establish a system leadership group to promote the recommendations of the I CAN and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist report, Bercow: Ten Years, published on 20 March 2018.

The recommendations of the ‘Bercow: Ten Years On’ report are very timely. They come at a time when we are considering the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism’s report ‘Autism and education in England 2017’; and considering our response to Dame Christine Lenehan’s review of residential special schools, ‘Good Intentions, Good Enough?’

We shall consider all of these reports carefully and will take that opportunity to set out how the government will continue working to achieve the vision of a reformed special educational needs and disabilities system, underpinned by the Children and Families Act 2014.