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1648926

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to implement guidance to Regional Expert Partnerships on how many local partners they need to engage with when refining proposals in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plans published in March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	191780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The department will be sharing strategic guidance with all Regional Expert Partnerships (REPs) for delivery of the Change Programme, which will include setting out the local partners they must engage with. Engagement with all partners across all local areas involved in the REPs, including schools, health partners and families, is integral to successfully delivering, testing and refining the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) reforms set out in the Improvement Plan.</p><p>Throughout the lifetime of the programme, there will be a constant feedback loop between the department and the REPs in order to monitor the findings and share learning and best practice. This will include the REPs feeding back on the progress of delivering the reforms and any barriers they may be facing. The department will be transparent throughout this process and is currently establishing how it will provide public updates as the programme progresses.</p><p>The department previously shared that all REPs would be led by a lead local authority, selected through objective criteria based on published SEND performance data. The department used this data to identify a shortlist of local authorities in each Department for Education region, who were subsequently invited to submit an expression of interest to be considered for the role. To be eligible for the shortlist, prospective lead local authorities must not:</p><ul><li>Have a live written statement of action from the previous Ofsted/ Care Quality Commission (CQC) Area SEND inspection framework.</li><li>Have an 'inconsistent’ or ‘widespread/systemic failure’ outcome from the new Ofsted/CQC Area SEND inspection framework.</li><li>Have a Section 114 notice.</li><li>Be on our Safety Valve programme.</li></ul><p> </p><p>They must also be in the top 75% of authorities nationally against:</p><ul><li>Rates of Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment requests.</li><li>Rates of EHC plan assessments completed in 20 weeks.</li><li>Special Educational Needs exclusions.</li></ul><p>The department then ranked the remaining authorities based on their Designated School Grant surplus/deficit and shortlisted the top three local authorities in each region.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 191781 191782 question first answered 07/07/2023 11:20:34 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1648927

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to publish (a) the feedback from the Regional Expert Partnerships to her Department and (b) discussions on how the proposals within the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plans published in March 2023 are to be refined.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	191781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The department will be sharing strategic guidance with all Regional Expert Partnerships (REPs) for delivery of the Change Programme, which will include setting out the local partners they must engage with. Engagement with all partners across all local areas involved in the REPs, including schools, health partners and families, is integral to successfully delivering, testing and refining the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) reforms set out in the Improvement Plan.</p><p>Throughout the lifetime of the programme, there will be a constant feedback loop between the department and the REPs in order to monitor the findings and share learning and best practice. This will include the REPs feeding back on the progress of delivering the reforms and any barriers they may be facing. The department will be transparent throughout this process and is currently establishing how it will provide public updates as the programme progresses.</p><p>The department previously shared that all REPs would be led by a lead local authority, selected through objective criteria based on published SEND performance data. The department used this data to identify a shortlist of local authorities in each Department for Education region, who were subsequently invited to submit an expression of interest to be considered for the role. To be eligible for the shortlist, prospective lead local authorities must not:</p><ul><li>Have a live written statement of action from the previous Ofsted/ Care Quality Commission (CQC) Area SEND inspection framework.</li><li>Have an 'inconsistent’ or ‘widespread/systemic failure’ outcome from the new Ofsted/CQC Area SEND inspection framework.</li><li>Have a Section 114 notice.</li><li>Be on our Safety Valve programme.</li></ul><p> </p><p>They must also be in the top 75% of authorities nationally against:</p><ul><li>Rates of Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment requests.</li><li>Rates of EHC plan assessments completed in 20 weeks.</li><li>Special Educational Needs exclusions.</li></ul><p>The department then ranked the remaining authorities based on their Designated School Grant surplus/deficit and shortlisted the top three local authorities in each region.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 191780 191782 question first answered 07/07/2023 11:20:34 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1648928

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2023 to Question 180364 on Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs, what objective criteria is to be used when selecting local authorities using published SEND performance data.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	191782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The department will be sharing strategic guidance with all Regional Expert Partnerships (REPs) for delivery of the Change Programme, which will include setting out the local partners they must engage with. Engagement with all partners across all local areas involved in the REPs, including schools, health partners and families, is integral to successfully delivering, testing and refining the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) reforms set out in the Improvement Plan.</p><p>Throughout the lifetime of the programme, there will be a constant feedback loop between the department and the REPs in order to monitor the findings and share learning and best practice. This will include the REPs feeding back on the progress of delivering the reforms and any barriers they may be facing. The department will be transparent throughout this process and is currently establishing how it will provide public updates as the programme progresses.</p><p>The department previously shared that all REPs would be led by a lead local authority, selected through objective criteria based on published SEND performance data. The department used this data to identify a shortlist of local authorities in each Department for Education region, who were subsequently invited to submit an expression of interest to be considered for the role. To be eligible for the shortlist, prospective lead local authorities must not:</p><ul><li>Have a live written statement of action from the previous Ofsted/ Care Quality Commission (CQC) Area SEND inspection framework.</li><li>Have an 'inconsistent’ or ‘widespread/systemic failure’ outcome from the new Ofsted/CQC Area SEND inspection framework.</li><li>Have a Section 114 notice.</li><li>Be on our Safety Valve programme.</li></ul><p> </p><p>They must also be in the top 75% of authorities nationally against:</p><ul><li>Rates of Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan assessment requests.</li><li>Rates of EHC plan assessments completed in 20 weeks.</li><li>Special Educational Needs exclusions.</li></ul><p>The department then ranked the remaining authorities based on their Designated School Grant surplus/deficit and shortlisted the top three local authorities in each region.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 191780 191781 question first answered 07/07/2023 11:20:34 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1610231

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the Regional Expert Partnerships intended to design and test the proposals in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan published in March 2023 will be established.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	180364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>Through the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Change Programme, the department will establish up to nine Regional Expert Partnerships (REP) to test and refine our reforms. Each REP will be led by a local authority, selected using objective criteria based on published SEND performance data. An additional two to three local authorities will be included in each REP, based predominantly on their geographical proximity to the lead local authority, so we can test in a wide range of local areas with differing performance, capacity and capability. Wherever possible, each REP will be located within a single Integrated Care Board, to ensure close collaboration with health partners.</p><p>REPs will be required to engage with their local partners, including health, social care, Multi-Academy Trusts, mainstream, specialist and alternative provision schools, and parents, children and young people, to involve them in testing and refining the reforms.</p><p>Real-time learning from the REPs will be fed back to the department on a regular basis, and will inform discussions at the national SEND and AP Implementation Board.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 180497 180498 180499 180500 question first answered 25/04/2023 15:57:54 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1610232

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to plans set out in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan published in March 2023 to work with a delivery partner and regional expert partnerships to implement a Change Programme, if she will publish tender documents for the appointment of that delivery partner.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	180365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>On the 6 March, the department published the invitation to tender for the Delivery Partner to support the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Change Programme, with a closing date of the 17 April. This was done through the department’s Management Consultancy Framework 3, inviting interested organisations to bid for the contract.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 25/04/2023 15:58:17 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1607804

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, published on 2 March 2023, what estimate she has made of when the National Special Educational Needs and Alternative Provision Standards will be published.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	174486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>In the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, the department set out the mission for more children and young people to have their needs met effectively in mainstream settings, reducing reliance on education, health and care plans to access support.</p><p>We will improve mainstream education through setting standards for early and accurate identification of need, and timely access to support to meet those needs. The standards will include clarifying the types of support that should be ordinarily available in mainstream settings, who is responsible for securing the support, and from what budgets. This will give parents confidence and clarity on how their child’s needs will be met.</p><p>The department wants to ensure National Standards are evidence-based, deliverable, and support financial sustainability. We will test our work with a wide range of stakeholders across education, health, and social care, including to consider the resources required to deliver the National Standards.</p><p>The department will embed development of standards in our £70 million Change Programme to ensure the standards can be tested, iterated, and set up for success. We will publish a significant proportion of the National Standards by the end of 2025.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 174487 174488 question first answered 04/04/2023 13:34:41 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1607805

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, published on 2 March 2023, whether she plans to provide additional funding to support services to deliver the National Special Educational Needs and Alternative Provision Standards.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	174487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>In the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, the department set out the mission for more children and young people to have their needs met effectively in mainstream settings, reducing reliance on education, health and care plans to access support.</p><p>We will improve mainstream education through setting standards for early and accurate identification of need, and timely access to support to meet those needs. The standards will include clarifying the types of support that should be ordinarily available in mainstream settings, who is responsible for securing the support, and from what budgets. This will give parents confidence and clarity on how their child’s needs will be met.</p><p>The department wants to ensure National Standards are evidence-based, deliverable, and support financial sustainability. We will test our work with a wide range of stakeholders across education, health, and social care, including to consider the resources required to deliver the National Standards.</p><p>The department will embed development of standards in our £70 million Change Programme to ensure the standards can be tested, iterated, and set up for success. We will publish a significant proportion of the National Standards by the end of 2025.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 174486 174488 question first answered 04/04/2023 13:34:41 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1607806

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan, published on 2 March 2023, what steps she plans to take to monitor the implementation of the National Special Educational Needs and Alternative Provision Standards.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	174488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>In the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, the department set out the mission for more children and young people to have their needs met effectively in mainstream settings, reducing reliance on education, health and care plans to access support.</p><p>We will improve mainstream education through setting standards for early and accurate identification of need, and timely access to support to meet those needs. The standards will include clarifying the types of support that should be ordinarily available in mainstream settings, who is responsible for securing the support, and from what budgets. This will give parents confidence and clarity on how their child’s needs will be met.</p><p>The department wants to ensure National Standards are evidence-based, deliverable, and support financial sustainability. We will test our work with a wide range of stakeholders across education, health, and social care, including to consider the resources required to deliver the National Standards.</p><p>The department will embed development of standards in our £70 million Change Programme to ensure the standards can be tested, iterated, and set up for success. We will publish a significant proportion of the National Standards by the end of 2025.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 174486 174487 question first answered 04/04/2023 13:34:41 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1607807

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan, published on 2nd March 2023, when her Department plans to introduce local SEND and alternative provision partnerships.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	174489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Change Programme’s Regional Expert Partners will support areas to design and test local area partnerships from spring 2023. Non-statutory guidance will be published in autumn 2023, outlining the full detail of the expectations for local SEND and AP partnerships, including clear roles and responsibilities for the partnership collectively and the partners individually.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 04/04/2023 15:25:49 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1607809

registered interest
date	27/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education and Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan Right Support, Right Place, Right Time, published on 2 March 2023, when her Department plans to publish guidance to support effective transitions between all stages of education.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	174491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan, published on 2 March 2023, outlines the government’s mission to establish a single, national SEND and AP system. The plan can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-and-alternative-provision-improvement-plan/send-and-alternative-provision-roadmap" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-and-alternative-provision-improvement-plan/send-and-alternative-provision-roadmap</a>.</p><p>Alongside this, the department published a roadmap which summarises the actions set out in the Improvement Plan to improve the SEND and AP system in England. The roadmap can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-and-alternative-provision-improvement-plan/send-and-alternative-provision-roadmap" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-and-alternative-provision-improvement-plan/send-and-alternative-provision-roadmap</a>.</p><p>As part of this roadmap, the department is committed to publishing guidance to support effective transitions between all stages of education, and into employment and adult services, by the end of 2025.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 04/04/2023 15:22:45 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark