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SEND Review #GreenPaper published in full here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

1) Proposing to establish a new national SEND and alternative provision system setting
nationally consistent standards for how needs are identified and met at every stage of a child’s journey across education, health and care.

2) Review and update the SEND Code of Practice to ensure it reflects the new national standards to promote nationally consistent systems, processes and provision

3) establish new local SEND partnerships, bringing together education (including AP), health and care partners with local government and other partners to produce a local inclusion plan setting out how each local area will meet the national standards

4) Introduce a standardised and digitised EHCP process and template to minimise bureaucracy and deliver consistency.

5) Support parents and carers to express an informed preference for a suitable placement by providing a tailored list of settings, drawn from the local
inclusion plan... that are appropriate to meet the child or young person’s needs

6) Streamline the redress process, making it easier to resolve disputes earlier, including through mandatory mediation, whilst retaining the tribunal for the most challenging cases.

7) Increase the total investment in schools’ budgets by £7 billion by 2024-25, compared to 2021-22, including an additional £1 billion in 2022-23 alone for children and young people with complex needs.

8) Consult on the introduction of a new SENCo National Professional Qualification (NPQ) for school SENCos, and increase the number of staff with an accredited Level 3 SENCo qualification in early years settings to improve SEND expertise.

9) Commission analysis to better understand the support that children and young people with SEND need from the health workforce so that there is a
clear focus on SEND in health workforce planning

10) Improve mainstream provision, through excellent teacher training and development and a ‘what works’ evidence programme to identify and share best practice, including in early intervention.

11) Fund more than 10,000 additional respite placements through an investment of £30 million, alongside £82 million to create a network of family hubs, so more children, young people and their families can access wraparound support.

12) Invest £2.6 billion, over the next three years, to deliver new places and improve existing provision for children and young people with SEND or who require alternative provision. Also to deliver more new special and alternative provision free schools.

13) Set out a clear timeline that, by 2030, all children will benefit from being taught in a school in a strong multi-academy trust (MAT), or with plans to join or form one, sharing expertise and resources to improve outcomes.

14) Invest £18 million over the next three years to build capacity in the Supported Internships Programme, and improve transitions at further education.

15) Make alternative provision an integral part of local SEND systems by requiring the new local SEND partnerships to plan and deliver an alternative
provision service focused on early intervention.

16) Give alternative provision schools the funding stability to deliver a service focused on early intervention by requiring local authorities to create and
distribute an alternative provision-specific budget.

16) Build system capacity to deliver the vision through plans for all alternative provision schools to be in a strong multi-academy trust, or have plans to join
or form one, to deliver evidence-led services based on best practice, and open new alternative provision free schools.

17) Develop a bespoke performance framework for alternative provision which sets robust standards focused on progress, re-integration into mainstream
education or sustainable post-16 destinations.

18) Deliver greater oversight and transparency of pupil movements including placements into and out of alternative provision.

19) Launch a call for evidence, before the summer, on the use of unregistered provision to investigate existing practice.

20) Deliver clarity in roles and responsibilities with every partner across education, health, care and local government having a clear role to play, and being equipped with the levers to fulfil their responsibilities.

21) Equip the Department for Education’s (DfE) new Regions Group to take responsibility for holding local authorities and MATs to account for delivering for children and young people with SEND locally through new funding agreements between local government and DfE.

22) Provide statutory guidance to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) to set out clearly how statutory responsibilities for SEND should be discharged. Introduce new inclusion dashboards for 0-25 provision, offering a timely, transparent picture of how the system is performing.

23) Introduce a new national framework of banding and price tariffs for funding, matched to levels of need and types of education provision set out in the national
standards.

24) Work with Ofsted/Care Quality Commission (CQC) on their plan to deliver an updated Local Area SEND Inspection Framework with a focus on arrangements and experience for children and young people with SEND and in alternative provision.

25) Take immediate steps to stabilise local SEND systems by investing an additional £300 million through the Safety Valve Programme and £85 million in the Delivering Better Value programme, over the next three years, to support those local authorities with the biggest deficits.

26) Task the SEND and Alternative Provision Directorate within DfE to work with system leaders from across education, health and care and the Department of Health and Social Care to develop the national SEND standards.

27) Support delivery through a £70 million SEND and Alternative Provision change programme to both test and refine key proposals and support local SEND systems across the country to manage local improvement.

28) Publish a national SEND and alternative provision delivery plan setting out government’s response to this public consultation and how change will be implemented in detail and by whom to deliver better outcomes for children and young people.

29) Establish, for implementation of the national delivery plan, a new National SEND Delivery Board to bring together relevant government departments with national delivery partners to hold partners to account for the timely implementation of proposals.