Oral Question·Department for Education
“What steps she is taking to ensure that disabled children have access to specialist teachers.”
Tabled: 21 January 2025Answered: 27 January 2025
Asked by
Marsha De Cordova
Labour — Battersea
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for School Standards (Catherine McKinnell)
High quality teaching is the most important in-school factor for improving outcomes for all children, including those with disabilities. That is why we are committed to delivering our first step of recruiting 6,500 new teachers to drive high and rising standards in our schools in both mainstream and specialist settings. We are doing that by bolstering pay and conditions, and restoring teaching as a respected, expert profession.