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“Incredibly insightful, thank you. Then finally, Louise?”

“Very helpful, thank you very much. Lamar?”

“Of course, yes. What is your experience of leaving care? What sort of support did you receive? I am talking specifically about financial support or housing support. Did you have a personal adviser and, if so, were they useful?”

“Just before we move on from kinship care to care leavers, I want to ask Sam one more question. Sam, your answers have been good today, very extensive, you have covered a lot of territory. You might want to touch on something you have already said but there might be something new you want to add to this one. On kinship …”

“In the interests of time, I will ask you several questions at once. I will repeat any of them if you want me to. You don’t even need to answer them all, just answer the parts that are most important to you, most prevalent to you. What were your experiences of actually leaving care? What was the support like, specifical…”

“In the interests of time, I will ask you several questions at once. I will repeat any of them if you want me to. You don’t even need to answer them all, just answer the parts that are most important to you, most prevalent to you. What were your experiences of actually leaving care? What was the support like, specifical…”

“Just before we move on from kinship care to care leavers, I want to ask Sam one more question. Sam, your answers have been good today, very extensive, you have covered a lot of territory. You might want to touch on something you have already said but there might be something new you want to add to this one. On kinship …”

“Incredibly insightful, thank you. Then finally, Louise?”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos) for securing this debate. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth West (Jessica Toale) has already summarised a lot of the excellent contributions from the Government side. It is clear from today’s debate that we all know that post offi…”

“Greenhill primary school serves the small Armley and Bramley parts of my constituency. Its excellent work was recognised in its most recent Ofsted report this month, which states that the school has improved rapidly and pupils are safe. I have seen that excellent work at first hand, including through the Solar for Scho…”

“I enthusiastically welcome the Government’s commitment to growth and commend them for taking the difficult decisions required to generate it. It is important that all parts of our country benefit from the proceeds of growth. In my capacity as a Leeds MP and chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Yorkshire and n…”

“That is very helpful; thank you, Imogen. Katie and Amanda, do you have any views on putting SEN support on a statutory footing? If so, what do you think it would look like in practice?”

“Thank you all for coming in today. Turning now to putting SEN support on a statutory footing, I have a couple of questions for Imogen and then for the rest of the panel. First, your organisation advocates putting SEN support on a statutory footing, as you said. What would that look like in practice?”

“That is very helpful. There was a lot in that answer, but it is about taking the code of practice and putting that into law, essentially ensuring that schools all follow that by changing words like “should” to “must”. Critics have suggested that any change in the law in this way would increase the bureaucracy—increase …”

“In short, yes, you would agree in principle that putting SEN support on a statutory footing is a good thing?”

“What strategies or measures should schools or local authorities put in place to help SEND students make the transition from early years to primary school, or primary school to secondary school? Does the panel have any thoughts on that? Who would like to start?”

“Thank you all for coming in today. Turning now to putting SEN support on a statutory footing, I have a couple of questions for Imogen and then for the rest of the panel. First, your organisation advocates putting SEN support on a statutory footing, as you said. What would that look like in practice?”

“That is very helpful. There was a lot in that answer, but it is about taking the code of practice and putting that into law, essentially ensuring that schools all follow that by changing words like “should” to “must”. Critics have suggested that any change in the law in this way would increase the bureaucracy—increase …”

“That is very helpful; thank you, Imogen. Katie and Amanda, do you have any views on putting SEN support on a statutory footing? If so, what do you think it would look like in practice?”

“In short, yes, you would agree in principle that putting SEN support on a statutory footing is a good thing?”