Agenda item

The meeting received a report on the aims and strategic priorities of the Borough’s Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND(D)) Strategy 2016-18.  The Strategy set out a range of objectives within three priorities: Improving lifelong outcomes for Children and Young People with SEN(D) and their families; Involving, engaging and enabling those children, young people and families; and Ensuring the highest quality of provision and services through effective procurement and commissioning arrangements.

RESOLVED:-

(i)        that the recent publication of the Strategy be noted and partners seek to adopt its broad aims and strategic priorities;

(ii)       that any implications of the forthcoming Ofsted inspection of the Borough’s SEN(D) provision in the Borough during 2016/17 and the proposals in the Education White Paper, published in March 2016, regarding the continuing role of local authorities and their partners in SEN(D) provision be the subject of further reports to the Board in due course.