questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure that local authorities do not reach the same outcome as original decisions where the SEND Tribunal upholds a family's appeal against a school placement and orders a local authority to retake its decision; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of that remedy for families seeking to secure a suitable placement.
answerText: The department wants to protect parents' rights to express a preference for a setting, whilst ensuring that local authorities make placement decisions that consider the preference and needs of other children and young people in the area. In the government...
heading: Special Educational Needs: Appeals