Issue - meetings

The Executive Member for Education and the Director of Education and Partnerships submitted a report for the Executive’s consideration. The purpose of the report was to provide an update on Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities 0-25 in Middlesbrough since the local area revisit in July 2019 and since the last Executive report in November 2020.

The submitted report provided information on:

·         The Local Picture (see paragraphs 6 to 10);

·         The Local Area Inspection Framework (see paragraphs 11 to 14);

·         Funding (see paragraphs 15 to 20); and

·         Key Developments (see paragraphs 21 to 23).

The local area’s SEND Strategy (see Appendix 1 of the submitted report) had recently been updated.  Within the strategy, the current priorities were outlined, which were linked to identified areas for development. Those priorities were detailed at paragraph 24 of the submitted report.

It was planned that the key priorities and areas for development would be monitored via the SEND Strategic Group to ensure all action plans from the key work streams were on track. Work would also be monitored through engagement with families and the parents forum. 

The Council would continue to use information gathered from its SEND Strategic Group, key stakeholders, families and young people to regularly update the local area self-evaluation, which planned to highlight strengths and areas of development.  That information would be fed into key work streams to ensure areas of development were addressed.

ORDERED

That the update on progress within the local area since the 2017 Written Statement of Action, the local area revisit in July 2019 and the Executive Annual Report 2020 be noted.