Issue - decisions
SEND Strategy
11/11/2022 - SEND Strategy
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