Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

What steps she is taking to increase the number of children achieving the early learning goals.

Tabled: 21 January 2025Answered: 27 January 2025

Asked by

Josh Simons

LabourMakerfield

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for Education (Bridget Phillipson)

Children growing up in our country deserve the best start in life—nothing less. Through our plan for change, Labour will get a record share of children school-ready. We will make that a reality through opening new school-based nurseries, rolling out childcare, earlier intervention, speech and language support, help for parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities, and wider SEND reform. That is rightly ambitious, and we are determined to deliver it.