Q&A with Sharon Hodgson, Shadow Minister for Children and Families -ANSWERS BACK

[RachelMumsnet]

This week we're inviting you to send in questions to Sharon Hodgson. Sharon is the Labour Member of Parliament for Washington and Sunderland West, and Shadow Minister for Children and Families.

As Shadow Education Minister and parent of a child with severe dyslexia, Sharon has been asked to review the Labour Party's policies on Special Educational Needs this year.

Sharon is keen to hear stories of people with experience of the special needs system, whether that's young people, their parents or carers, or the professionals who work with them. Full details of the review are available at j.mp/SENreview

Please post your story or suggestion to improve SEN provision and policy and Sharon will then respond. Using ideas to help inform new SEN policies.

Send in your questions to Sharon before the end of Friday 23rd March and we'll be linking to her answers w/c 2nd April.

Thanks for all your questions and comments which we'll be sending one to Sharon. We'll let you know over the next couple of days when you can expect the archived Q&A to be live.

It's great that there was such an amazing response to this Q&A and we've sent all the comments and questions over to Sharon but there will be some delay in her answers coming back. We'll have more idea of when the answers will be up after the Easter weekend so will post on this thread again with a date.

have we heard anything yet? any date?

We've just had a mail to say that we will be receiving Sharon's answers and comments by the end of the week. We'll then archive the Q&A and link to it from this thread sometime next week. Will update when we have a precise date.

thanks

Sharon's answers are now back and you can read the full Q&A here:

Q&A with Sharon Hodgson

typical, nothing there to help us......a child with an obvious severe disability, where services across the board are failing him and he has been at home for the last 2 year as he can't attend his special school for needs they won't accept. The whole system is corrupt and the bottom of a cliff looks tempting!!!

didn't really answer my question and completely ignored your one devient! rather disappointing given the time it took her staff Sharon to actually reply

A reminder of two years ago