Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
(asked on 10th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many mainstream schools have an (a) unit and (b) resource base attached to them to support children with speech and language development.
This question was answered on 13th October 2022
As of January 2022, there were a total of 1,451 state-funded nursery, primary and secondary schools with a special educational needs (SEN) unit and/or resource provision. Of those schools, 433 report their type of SEN provision as ‘Speech, Language and Communication’ (118 with SEN units, 297 with resource provision and 18 with both).