Education written question – answered at on 8 June 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assistance his Department provides to parents of children with learning difficulties.
holding answer
We set out in the Green Paper, “Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability”, the main ways we are supporting parents of children with learning difficulties: every local authority in England has a duty to arrange a parent partnership service to give parents advice and information about their child's special educational needs; the Department is directly funding parent carer forums in every local authority area which enable parents to shape local services for disabled children; and, we have also recently distributed £6.5 million in grants to the voluntary and community sector to provide local support to communities including parents of children with learning difficulties.
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