Decision details

Reform to Assessments and Service Provision for Children and Young People who have Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities, Resulting from the Children and Families Act 2014 OCT 14/CMDN/90

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Education Skills and University

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The Cabinet Member is recommended to support the decision to implement the revised statutory duties that apply to the Council under the Children and Families Act 2014, noting the very significant contribution made to the implementation programme by Family Voice Peterborough

 

Reasons for the decision:

The recommendations summarise the significant amount of preparatory work to enable the Council to meet our statutory obligations. However, the work has achieved more than this minimum; the development of the 0-25 service, for example, places the Council in a very strong position to better meet the needs of young people and their families as they move into adulthood. It enables services to respond to the individual needs of the young person as they mature, rather than being organised around a fixed chronological age of 18 or 19.

Similarly, the work undertaken in relation to the requirement to publish a local offer will form the core of a much wider council-wide approach to providing our citizens with the information that they need in order that they are in a stronger position to help themselves.

Placing co-production with families at the core of the programme to implement the reforms also places the local authority and its’ partners in a very strong place to ensure that the cultural and practice changes that the legislation is intended to bring about – greater transparency, flexibility, choice and personalisation are embedded in Peterborough.

 

Alternative options considered:

The above changes reflect changes in statutory duties affecting local authorities and their partners, including schools; alternative options would result in the Council failing to fulfil our statutory obligations.

Interests and Nature of Interests Declared:

None.

Background Documents:

None unless otherwise stated within the CMDN.

Publication date: 14/10/2014

Date of decision: 14/10/2014

Effective from: 18/10/2014

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