Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children with disabilities that are eligible for the early education offer for disadvantaged two-year-olds have taken up that offer in (a) England, (b) each region of England and (c) each local authority.
The number of two-year-old children with a high level special educational need or disability who benefited from funded early education is published in Table 16LA of the ‘Provision for Children Under 5 years of age’ Statistical First Release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016
The proportion of two-year-old children with disabilities who are eligible for the early education offer and took up the offer is not available.