A child or young person has special educational needs and disabilities if they have a learning difficulty and/or a disability that means they need special health and education support, we shorten this to SEND.

The SEND Code of Practice 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014 gives guidance to health and social care, education and local authorities to make sure that children and young people with SEND are properly supported.

Our work

We work with integrated care boards (ICB’s)and organisations such as the Department for Education (DfE), the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) and voluntary organisations to make sure that there is support and services for children and young people with SEND.

We do this so that we can:

• make sure that children and young people are at the heart of everything we do
• improve the care and support that children and young people, and their familiesget
•  Strive to ensure that children and young people receive consistently high‑quality care and support, wherever they live.ensure that the right people know about SEND and EHC plans