Transforming SEND in Leicester
A summary of the SEND services improvement journey so far with the aim to creating a better future together.
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Inspection of our Local Offer (2018)
- Recognising the need to reassess:
- The quality of our support to children with SEND and their families
- The vision for SEND in Leicester
- Ownership across the partnership
Getting our house in order (2018-19)
- Resetting strategic and operational links
- Co-producing SEND strategy
- Developing Parent Carer Forum
- Understanding transition issues for children and young people
Increasing the pace of change (2020)
- Parent Carer Forum's Local Offer Live event to promote the local offer and support available Increasing options for parents/carers:
- Transport
- Personal transport budgets (PTB)
- Placements (DSP expansion)
- Improving compliance, timeliness and quality of EHCPs across Education, Health and Social Care]
- Launching a Quality Assurance Framework
Forging stronger links with children, parents and carers (2020)
- Relaunching surveys and encouraging feedback
- Extending the reach of Parent Carer Forum
- Children and Young People's Participation Strategy consultation
Taking action for growth (2020)
- Creating a system-wide knowledge of our Children
- Improving our data and knowledge
- Improving capacity in services (Local Authority and Health)
- Focussing on evidence based outcomes and School SENCo leadership
- Encouraging more active parent/carer/ child co-production, engagement & feedback
Facing the COVID pandemic (2020)
- Keeping in touch with parents, carers children and young people
- Reviewing individual health, care and social care provision during pandemic
- Keeping children safe
- Stronger more effective partnerships working together
Building on successes (2020)
- Co-producing Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) Commissioning Strategy
- Reviewing alternative provision
- Expanding education inclusion agenda
- Co-producing the Preparing for Adulthood Strategy
- Increasing co-production and collaboration with parents, carers and children
Creating a better future together (2021 and beyond)
Our journey to improve SEND will continue on.