How our strategy has been developed
This strategy has been developed collaboratively with representatives from education, health, and social care through the SEND and AP strategic partnership board.
It is grounded in the core values of “better belonging,” which reinforce Lincolnshire’s vision of an inclusive education system. In addition to professional input, the strategy reflects feedback from parents and young people, gathered through lived experience surveys, LPCF’s week of SEND and bi-annual survey, Lincolnshire Young Voices (the local area’s young person’s participation group) and previous participation and engagement events.
A multi-disciplinary task and finish group, led by Lincolnshire’s assistant director for children’s education, meets regularly to map our current provision, rationalise data, develop forecasts, identify gaps in provision, and agree plans for potential resource bases, special schools, and satellite provision. We have looked at our current capacity, spoken to individual schools, and commissioned projections and forecasts of future need.
All current data intelligence and forecasting formulas informing this strategy have been validated by an independent organisation with particular expertise in this sector. This external provider has supported the development of a SEND data dashboard, which uses data to provide up to date, live trajectories which inform sufficiency planning.
Moving forward, the intelligence will inform and direct this flexible and dynamic strategy to ensure we continue to deliver against demand, at the right time in the right place, as close to home as possible.