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Baroness Bull (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 March 2026

Debate

Special Educational Needs: Dyscalculia

Contribution

My Lords, dyscalculia is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition that manifests as severe difficulties with numerical processing. I hope the Minister will agree that with an incidence of one in 20, it is one of the commonly occurring conditions that the SEND reforms promise that every school will recognise and address. However, can she explain how we will get there, when the reforms are silent on numerical processing as a key development area and a full 58% of educators have no more than a rough idea of what dyscalculia is? Given this low awareness, will the Government make increasing dyscalculia knowledge a priority for the £200 million training budget? If so, is the Minister aware that even a modest target—just one level 7-trained assessor educator in each of the 317 councils—would require a doubling of the current capacity in the training system?

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