Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to produce a workforce plan for SEND and Alternative Provision staff before the end of this parliamentary Session.

The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan, published on 2 March 2023, set out that the department will work with the Department of Health and Social Care to take a joint approach to SEND workforce planning, informed by a stronger evidence base. We will establish a steering group this year to oversee this work. Further details on the steering group will be provided in due course.

Oversight of our reforms will be driven by a new national SEND and AP Implementation Board, jointly chaired by Education and Health Ministers.