Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the (a) readability and (b) accessibility to schools of SEND Information Reports.

The requirement for all schools to publish Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Information Reports was introduced in the Children and Families Act 2014. This means that every school must publish details of its provision for pupils with SEND, and review these details annually.

In the department’s SEND Improvement Plan, published in March 2023, we committed to explore whether the expectations about the contents of the SEND Information Report could be developed further to improve transparency. This will include how to improve accessibility.