Lancashire SEND Plan 2021-2025

  1. Overview
  2. Foreword from our leaders
  3. What is the Lancashire SEND Plan?
  4. The Lancashire SEND Partnership
  5. What is SEND?
  6. A good SEND offer
  7. SEND vision
  1. Priorities
  2. What the priorities mean
  3. Ways of working
  4. The Lancashire promise
  5. Turning priorities into action
  6. Here to help

3. What is the Lancashire SEND Plan?

The Lancashire SEND Plan 2021-25 describes what we need to do so that every child or young person with SEND experiences a good SEND offer (see page 5 for a definition of SEND, and page 6 for a description of a good SEND offer).

In November 2017 the Lancashire County Council area was inspected by two inspection agencies – Ofsted which carries out education inspections, and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) which carries out health inspections. The purpose of the inspection was to test the Lancashire SEND Partnership in the delivery of our statutory duties for children and young people with SEND (see list of partners on page 4).

The result of the inspection was that there were areas of significant concern which needed to be addressed, and these were subsequently worked on. An inspection revisit in March 2020 reviewed the areas to be addressed, and the improvement work on most of the areas of concern was considered to have progressed well. However 5 areas still needed more work which was monitored by the Department for Education and NHS England through an accelerated progress plan.

We know that we have more work to do so that all children and young people with SEND know that we are doing the best we can for them. The Lancashire SEND Plan for 2021-25 describes our ongoing improvement activity, including how we will work.

Along with our new vision, the SEND Plan makes sure we deliver on our promises to continually improve the Lancashire SEND offer in education, health and care from 2021-2025.

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