Lancashire SEND Strategy 2025-2028: Plan on a page

Introduction

As Lancashire’s SEND Partnership, we work closely to bring together all the services a child or young person with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and their family may need.

Vision

All children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) thrive in a nurturing inclusive environment, from birth into adulthood, where they are safe, happy, and healthy, achieving their potential with the support they need, when they need it.

Ambitions

• Be safe, happy, healthy, and achieve full potential.
• Early identification and timely support.
• Inclusion in mainstream schools close to home.
• Good physical, social, emotional, and mental health.
• Achieve educational goals and develop independence.
• Access to opportunities for best outcomes.

Working together

We will:

• Value relationships and work in partnership.
• Make sure lived experiences help us to shape services.
• Ensure children and young people and their parents/carers are fully involved in decision making at an individual and strategic level.
• Encourage innovation and digital enhancements.
• Communicate well with our families, communities and partners.
• Have clear monitoring and accountability processes.

Strategic priorities

1. Children and young people will have their needs identified as early as possible

2. Children and young people will have their needs met as close to home as possible

3. Children and young people are prepared for adult life from the earliest years 

4. Working Together - Children, young people and their families will feel valued and heard through communication, collaboration and co-production

5. Children, young people and their families will have better outcomes and experiences.

Governance