Our SEND Transformation Programme first began in 2020 with the following objectives:

investing in early years and earlier prevention
embedding a focus on outcomes
developing a system-wide view and working with partners to shape and deliver change
measuring and sharing our impact.

The key areas of focus are:

Developing Capacity: Ensuring we can provide the right support, at the right time for the right cost, including a significant increase in special school places across Cambridgeshire.
SEND Support and Ordinarily Available Provision: Designing a SEND support professional, web-based toolkit to support a shared understanding of mainstream provision expectations.
Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) Improvement Plan: Improve timeliness, quality, and confidence in the system and increased transparency in decision-making.
Preparing for Adulthood: Ensuring young people can access high-quality transitions and provisions to promote independence and wellbeing.
Outreach Model: To facilitate supporting pupils with SEND in mainstream provision through Special Schools outreach.
Banding and Descriptors of Need: Bring clarity to the graduated approach with consistent understanding and planning to meet needs across school types.
Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH): Achieving positive outcomes for children experiencing SEMH needs while remaining in mainstream education.
System Leadership: Embedding a strengths-based, person-centred approach to enable positive, sustainable change.
Case Management System: Implementation of a new case management system including online parent portals for EHCPs.
Review our Behaviour Attendance Improvement Partnerships with Secondary Schools: A review of arrangements to bring greater clarity to funding, roles, and responsibilities.
Panel Redesign: Developing consistent, transparent, strengths-based multi-agency decision making.
Tuition: A review to ensure the appropriate use of tuition packages, promoting reintegration back into school placements
Increasing Independence: Targeted reviews to ensure provision is proportionate, meets needs and promotes independence.
Enhanced Resource Bases: Confirming the commissioning arrangements for Enhanced Resource Bases and developing the Cambridgeshire offer.
SEND Transport: Review, rationalise and re-tender SEND Transport.
Early Years: To provide a more cohesive and comprehensive SEND Support offer to early years children.
Budget Reviews: A review ensuring value for money and aligned to support SEND Transformation Principles.
Tribunals: Review of tribunal process and allocated resources.