The Cabinet considered a report of the Executive Director (Children and Public Health) presenting the Southend SEND Strategy 2022-2025.

Resolved:

1. That the Southend SEND Strategy 2022-25, set out at Appendix 1 to the submitted report, be approved.

2. That the strategy be produced in an accessible document, which can be shared in a variety of formats in order to engage a range of audiences.

Reasons for decision:

It is widely acknowledged that SEND is a joint area responsibility encompassing partners from Education, Health and Care and the children, young people and families they support and therefore a specific coproduced SEND Strategy outlining priorities for the next 3 years is recommended.

Other options:

The SEND Partnership could continue to operate without a formal published strategy or subsume the SEND Strategy into a wider Council Strategy.

Note: This is an Executive Function

Eligible for call-in to: People Scrutiny Committee

Cabinet Member: Cllr Burton