As Cabinet Member for Integrated Children’s Services and in consultation with the Cabinet Memberfor Educationand Skills, I agree to:
1) The addition of the following Statement of Ambition into the SEND Strategy:
To deliver a model of provision which supports greater inclusion of children and young people within mainstream schools in their local communities through the realignment of the SEN system in Kent and to aim for the proportion of children and young people supported in each provision type (mainstream and specialist provision) to reflect more closely both statistical neighbours and national averages.
2) Proposed updates are made to the SEND Strategy as set out in paragraphs 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 of this report, to align with that ambition.