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<p>The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision
(AP) Green Paper, published in March 2022, set out proposals for consultation, to
improve the experience and outcomes for children and young people with SEND and those
who need alternative provision.</p><p>The Department for Education has been having
regular meetings with Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
officials to discuss the findings from the SEND and AP green paper consultation. We
continue to work with them to develop our policy proposals.</p><p>Department officials
also work closely with DLUHC officials regarding the government’s work to support
local authorities to manage their high needs systems sustainably in the immediate
future. We have already made 14 Safety Valve agreements with local authorities to
support the sustainable management of their high needs budgets for the benefit of
children and young people and will work with up to a further 20 local authorities
in the 2022/23 financial year. We are also currently working with 55 local authorities
to address immediate pressures in their local systems, taking a diagnostic approach
to helping them improve delivery of SEND services for children and young people, while
ensuring services are sustainable.</p><p> </p>
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