Special Educational Needs

(asked on 21st April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that families of children with SEND will be included in local SEND partnerships, following the SEND Review.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 26th April 2022

In the SEND Green Paper, the department put forward proposals that local partnerships will bring together representatives across early years, schools, further education, alternative and specialist provision, in addition to health and care partners and other partners, including youth justice. The proposal is that the partnerships would be responsible for working with parents and carers to carry out an assessment of need and existing provision across their local area and produce a local inclusion plan.

Co-production remains a fundamental principle of the SEND system and the department will continue to work with children and young people with SEND and their families at both national and local levels.

The department will set out how these partnerships will work in more detail following the completion of the consultation, so that we can fully consider the views of children and young people, parents, carers, and others.

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