Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 41372
Special Educational Needs
Tabled: 25 March 2025
Answered: 2 April 2025
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing children to attend specialist education settings in a different local authority to the one in which they reside.
Answer
Catherine McKinnellChildren and young people can attend specialist provision in any local authority, not just the one in which they reside.Children and young people will be placed in special schools through the statutory process which the Children and Families Act 2014 pres...
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