Clause 10
Education and Skills Bill
1:30 pm
Gordon Marsden (PPS (Mr Michael Wills, Minister of State), Ministry of Justice; Blackpool South, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman makes the Special Educational Consortium’s case persuasively. I have also heard its case, and I agree that we must put much greater emphasis on local authorities’ obligation to provide support. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that support outside the school for children with special educational needs and disabilities is as crucial as that within it? Does he welcome the investment and initiatives that the Secretary of State and Lord Adonis in the other place have brought forward in the past 12 months to provide support to those families?