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Proposals for children with special educational needs and disabilities
11/01/2022
Proposals include high quality SEND education available closer to home and improving outcomes through closer partnerships between the council and schools
We’re being invited to have our say on plans to develop a more inclusive approach to supporting children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Oxfordshire.
Oxfordshire County Council’s proposals include making more high quality SEND education available closer to home, reducing reliance on out of county provision, and improving educational outcomes for children through closer partnerships between the council and schools.
Our thoughts are also being sought on a draft Local Area SEND Strategy to develop high quality services across education, health, and social care to support children and young people and their families.
The two consultations are interlinked and will run together until Thursday March 10.
Councillor Liz Brighouse, Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Children, Education and Youth Services, said: “In Oxfordshire, organisations that work with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities have a shared ambition that our county will be a place where every young person has the opportunity to become everything they want to be.”
Key areas covered include improving outcomes for children with SEND, ensuring good physical and mental health and wellbeing and improving post-16 education, learning, employment and training. There is also a focus on supporting an education system where parents and carers have confidence that their children’s needs will be understood and met in their local school.
Councillor Brighouse added: “We want children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities to receive the very best support at the right time for them. We want them to be able to access suitable education and to achieve their potential by being well prepared for a fulfilling, healthy adult life. That is why I’m encouraging as many residents as possible to participate in these consultations to help us make the right decisions and choices.”
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam