Debate contribution: SEN Pupils: Legal Right to Education

Debate contribution by Mrs Diane Dodds on 17 September 2024.

MLA: Mrs Diane Dodds
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 17 September 2024
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: SEN Pupils: Legal Right to Education
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4537097

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Thank you for your answer, Minister. Over the past number of weeks, I have been contacted by a number of parents of young people who have special educational needs. They have had problems getting on to courses in the Southern Regional College (SRC) and with transport, and courses have moved and no one knows what is going on. There may be many different pathways for young people with special educational needs, but do you agree that, rather than having working groups and identifying pathways, the legal entitlement is the most important way of ensuring that we are responsive to the needs of young people with special educational needs? Will the Minister work to ensure that such a legal entitlement is brought forward in legislation?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 796/22-27.

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