Bristol SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024 to 2028 consultation

The last SEND strategy was written in 2019.

To develop the draft strategy for 2024 to 2028, we've worked in partnership with education, health and social care organisations as well as organisations working in our local communities, including Bristol Parent Carers and The Listening Partnership who are a group of children and young people with SEND aged from 13-25.

The draft strategy sets out how our partnership will make things better for children and young people with SEND over the next four years. It's based on a self-evaluation we completed in 2023 using feedback from the partnership. We will continue to update it every year. The self-evaluation process helped us all understand what is going well and what needs improving.

Some of the things we propose are based on what children and young people with SEND and their parent carers have told us and some are required by law.

The draft strategy sets out the six priority areas our partnership will focus on together. It also sets out the outcomes we are trying to achieve and how we will know if we have fulfilled them.

We will also develop a detailed action plan; this will set out everything we will do to achieve the outcomes under each priority.