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Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders

Question for Department for Education

UIN 178219, tabled on 11 October 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to include communication and language as a focus of the next round of Pupil Premium Awards.

Answered on

16 October 2018

The Pupil Premium Awards recognise excellent practice by schools in raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils through use of pupil premium funding.

Head teachers have discretion over how they spend the pupil premium as they are best placed to identify interventions that meet the needs of their pupils – which can include speech, language and communication barriers.

We will be responding to this and the other recommendations of the 'Bercow: 10 Years On' report, shortly.

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