The 0-25 SEND Partnership

All relevant partners in Cheshire East are committed to providing the best quality education and support for all children and young people to ensure they achieve the best possible outcomes.

The 0-25 SEND Partnership is a multi-agency partnership arrangement which leads and drives developments around support, processes and provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND) aged 0-25 years in Cheshire East.

The SEND Partnership includes representatives from the following organisations and groups:

• Cheshire East Council
• Cheshire East Parent Carer Forum
• NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
• Providers of health services
• Educational settings (early years providers, schools and further education providers)

We are committed to working TOGETHER (our shared definition of co-production) when developing and shaping our services.

The 0-25 SEND Partnership includes a clear governance structure to ensure effective delivery and oversight of improvements at pace, and includes:

• The SEND Executive Oversight Panel, which provides executive level leadership and oversight of the progress, outcomes and financial impact of the work carried out by the 0-25 SEND Partnership.
• The 0-25 SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) Partnership Board, which provides senior level guidance, scrutiny, financial monitoring and direction to monitor progress of the SEND and AP ‘One Plan’. 
• A SEND Transformation Action Group (TAG), which appoints and assigns actions from our SEND and AP ‘One Plan’ to dedicated delivery leads (who then develop Task and Finish Groups for action delivery) and holds delivery leads and their task and finish group accountable for completion of actions in line with agreed timescales.
• Temporary Task and Finish groups, where an appointed delivery lead brings together cross-functional colleagues from across stakeholder groups as required to complete assigned actions.

Our SEND and AP ‘One Plan’ 2025 – 2028

Our SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) Strategy and Development Plan, referred to as the Cheshire East SEND and AP ‘One Plan’ (PDF, 2MB) sets out what we want to achieve as a partnership for children and young people with SEND in Cheshire East, and the key actions that we will carry out to achieve our priorities of ‘Right Support in the Right Place at the Right Time’.

The SEND and AP ‘One Plan’ aims to ensure development actions undertaken through the partnership are completed effectively and at pace, and support the achievement of the best outcomes for children and young people with SEND within a financially sustainable framework.

The document is referred to as our SEND and AP ‘One Plan’ as the partnership feel it is a clear, simple name which reflects both the concept of pulling all actions into a single document, and all partners working as one to a single plan with a shared vision to deliver our improvements. The document has been produced by working TOGETHER, with feedback and input from colleagues and residents across the partnership.

The development plan within our ‘One Plan’ will be a live and responsive plan, so will be regularly updated and adapted to incorporate new actions and close actions as needed, with updated plans regularly shared and monitored within our SEND partnership governance arrangements.