A question on #SpecialEducationalNeeds tabled by Blake Stephenson on 25-03-2025 has been answered by Catherine McKinnell.

Heading: Special Educational Needs
Question ID: 1788544
UIN: 41372
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-03-25
Asking Member ID: 5100
Asking Member display name: Blake Stephenson
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Blake Stephenson
Member interest: true
Question text: 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.
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Date answered: 2025-04-02
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4125
Answering Member display name: Catherine McKinnell
Answering Member handle: CMcKinnellMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @CMcKinnellMP
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Answer text: Children 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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Answering body ID: 60
Answering body name: Department for Education
Tweeted: true