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SEND Strategy 2019- 2024

Page Updated: 24th December 2020

This page contains the final Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and Inclusion Strategy for 2019-2024. Within this page will also be any updates and reports that concern the SEND and Inclusion strategy. An easy read version of the document will become available once it has been produced. This page works best in browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. To access more information click the arrows to expand the text.

Tell us what you think

Have Your Say surveys open throughout January on the Inclusion Framework, the Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice (OAIP) guide and Tools for Schools.

At the beginning of the autumn term, the following resources entered the ‘pilot’ phase of their development:

Tools for Schools, a website full of resources, information and strategies to support the individual needs of children and young people.

The Inclusion Framework, a whole school self-evaluation tool

Ordinarily Available Inclusive Practice (OAIP), a practitioner guide focusing on quality first teaching expectations and adjustment that can be made to meet the special education needs of children and young people.

We need to know what you think of these three resources so we can continue to develop and improve them. Your feedback will be anonymised and then reviewed by task and finish groups made up of West Sussex schools, early years and post 16 settings, parent carers and local authority officers.

Please follow the links to ‘Have Your Say’ online surveys below, which are running from 4 January to 29 January.

We appreciate you have had a very different start to the academic year and may not have had time to explore these resources in detail. For this reason, we have designed three separate surveys, one for each resource. Each survey should take no more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.

Please feel free to complete the most relevant survey(s) to your school or setting.

Complete the survey on the OAIP

Complete the survey on the Inclusion Framework

Complete the survey on Tools for Schools

Similar surveys will be repeated at the beginning of the summer term.

More information about the Inclusion Framework and the OAIP can be found on the Tools for Schools website. These resources are being developed as part of the SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2019-2024.

We look forward to getting your feedback!

Bella Cobby, SEND and Inclusion Development Manager and Maryanne Woodland, Senior Educational Psychologist

SEND Strategy Board Meeting Notes

September 2020 Documents

May 2020 Documents

January 2020 Documents

Updates before the final SEND Strategy was released

UPDATE 04/02/2019 - The final version on the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion strategy is now available to read here.
UPDATE 17/12/2019 - As part of the SEND and Inclusion Strategy we are keen to hear the view of schools, education settings, pupils and parent carers. A short film has been made capturing some thinking on inclusion, a sample of the SEND strategies schools are using and how schools and settings work with each other and professionals to meet the needs of pupils. We would encourage you to join our conversation and get involved in the delivery of the SEND and Inclusion Strategy by emailing [email protected]
UPDATE 15/07/2019 - Read the SEND Inclusion Strategy Consultation Response here
UPDATE 09/07/2019 - A letter has been issued about the proposed SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2019-2024 from Richard Burrett, Cabinet Member for Education and Skills, Paul Wagstaff, Director for Education and Skills and Helen Johns, Head of Inclusion and SEND. Read letter here

Have your say on SEND and Inclusion Draft Strategy 2019-24

This survey is no longer active.

The West Sussex draft Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion Strategy has been published for comment. View survey comments.

Please share with all that may be interested and encourage them to comment on the proposals. The consultation ends Friday 14 June 2019.

The draft SEND and Inclusion Strategy has been co-produced during the spring term 2019, with a wide representation of stakeholders – more than 150 people have participated in the development workshops and events. The stakeholders have included parent carers, young people, education providers and other professionals from across social care, health and education. Together, we have identified the key work priority areas which are outlined in the strategy.

This draft strategy is a starting point that will be refined and further developed in response to feedback.

SEND & Inclusion Newsletter

You can view all past SEND & Inclusion Newsletters on the Local Offer SEND & Inclusion Newsletter web page

SEND Strategy 2019- 2024

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