Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 100405

Brain: Injuries

Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 23 December 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are being taken to improve early identification of cognitive, behavioural, and emotional needs arising from acquired brain injury in children, particularly within school settings.

Answer

Georgia Gould
Children who have had a brain injury can be affected in different ways. Some brain injuries will result in a special educational need (SEN) or a medical need, whilst others may affect a child in other ways. In whatever way a brain injury manifests, it is ...

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