Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 66162

Special Educational Needs: Reform

Tabled: 9 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Mary Glindon

LabourNewcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to consult charities on SEND reform.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell

My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and I continue to engage with special educational needs and disabilities charities, stakeholders and parent carers, and are conducting weekly engagement sessions via webinars, meetings and visits. We are also engaging via roundtables with the voluntary, charity and community sectors, the most recent being in June 2025.

These engagements will carry on throughout the White Paper consultation period into the autumn and beyond.