The announcement comes as new figures show that the number of children still waiting to be transferred from an SEN statement to an education, health, and care (EHC) plan fell to less than 4,000 as of the 31 March deadline.
Figures published in March showed that 14,305 (six per cent) of the 236,225 children who had special educational needs statements when the transfer process began in September 2014 had not been issued with an educational, health and care (EHC) plan as of 1 March.
But the latest figures show the number waiting has now dropped to 3,873 (1.6 per cent of the total).
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