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<p>The government is committed to supporting local authorities and their partners
to ensure children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) continue
their education during the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>We have published a range of guidance
for education settings, local authorities, health commissioning bodies and families,
and are monitoring the effectiveness of measures through:</p><ul><li>carrying out
briefings with all local authorities through regional events, setting out the government
expectations regarding meeting the needs of children and young people with SEND (these
briefings were also attended by a number of parent and carer representatives and health
bodies);</li><li>undertaking structured conversations with SEND leaders in all local
authorities to probe the detail of their response to the measures in the guidance;</li><li>drawing
on wider feedback from our team of professional SEND advisers, delivery support partners
and a range of stakeholders, including representative bodies for local authorities
and parents of children with SEND, and several specialist SEND organisations; and</li><li>through
Regional Education and Children’s Teams, the department is bringing together up-to-date
intelligence to provide ongoing support to local authorities to deliver their responsibilities,
working with Ofsted to bring all support into one coherent offer to best support them
in their response to the COVID-19 outbreak.</li></ul><p>We will continue to work with
education settings, local authorities, health commissioning bodies and a range of
stakeholders to keep the effectiveness of measures in our guidance under close review.</p>
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