To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal hearings were cancelled for the second or subsequent time in the 2019 calendar year.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to protect teaching and non-teaching staff from COVID-19 when schools re-open.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Berridge on 13 March (HL2079), whether any regional workshops on the annual reviews of Education, Health and Care Plans have taken place so far in 2020; and if so, which local auth...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that, where local authorities have decided to place a child's Education Health Care Plan at a particular school, that the school has sufficient funds to make the provisions specified.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to address the concerns raised by the report by Special Needs Jungle Education, Health & Care Plan annual review, published 10 December 2019, and in particular the findings relating to the low com...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of cancellations of first hearings in Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunals.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to compensate parents who have appealed to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal but whose first hearing was cancelled without adequate notice and as a result have incurred expense...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on appellants of First-Tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) hearings being cancelled; and what plans they have to mitigate this impact, including any plans to...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of HM Courts and Tribunal Services statistics released in relation to the First Tier (Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal) and in particular the level of fixed SENDIST hearings w...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) has sufficient (1) resources, and (2) judges, to cope with the number of cases before it; and what plans they have...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the provision of eating disorder services for males in England.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which transfers to date of Statements of Special Educational Needs to Education, Health and Care Plans meet the expectations set out by the Minister of State for Children and ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress across all local authorities in England in transferring Statements of Special Educational Need to Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs); and, based on that assessment, how m...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide additional funds to monitor and protect shipwrecks in the Exclusive Economic Zone as required by Article 9 of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in those countries that have ratified it.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of each of the funding streams to support implementation of Special Educational Needs and Disability reforms as listed by the Council for Disabled Children in its July Digest.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission Local Area SEND inspections: one year on, and in particular, the common areas of significant concern listen in that report.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the report by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Education, Health and Care Plans: our first 100 investigations, and in particular, of the recommendations concer...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which local authority performance targets for special educational needs teams, or individual staff within those teams, align with current legislation and guidance, in particul...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to address delays in the production of education, health and care plans in cases where (1) plans are produced by a local authority outside the timescale specified in regulations, and (2) plans are not p...