Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 50954
Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs
Tabled: 8 May 2025
Answered: 29 May 2025
Question
Lisa Smart
Liberal Democrat — Hazel Grove
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of local authority funded early years places for children with SEND under the age of 9 months.
Answer
Stephen MorganThe department does not fund places for children under the age of nine months. This is because the earliest a child can take up their government-funded place is the term after a child turns nine months old.