Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Committee received an update regarding the publication of the new Ofsted/CQC Inspection Framework for the provision of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) which was published in May 2016. This inspection framework prompted an internal review of the current SEND Strategy and Policy (2013–17) which was ratified at Community and Children’s Services Committee in July 2013.

The new inspection framework was an ‘area’ inspection with the local authority as the hub of each area. The Draft SEND Strategy was aligned to the themes for inspection articulated within the newly published framework. The recently published SEND inspection framework has three main themes for inspection:

· early identification of need;

· assessing and meeting needs;

· impact of services on life outcomes.

Resolved – that the report be received.