Decision details

Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board - SEND Sub-Committee

Decision Maker: Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Purpose:

This report proposes changes to the Terms of Reference for the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board – Send Sub-Committee following a proposal made at the last meeting of the SEND Sub-Committee on 24 September 2020.

Decisions:

Sarah Callaghan, Director of Education and Skills, Lancashire County Council updated the Board following the first Health and Wellbeing Board, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Sub-Committee which was held on 24 September 2020, where the Accelerated Progress Plan (APP) would be monitored at each meeting, as well as at the monthly Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Operations Group and progress would be reported to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Partnership Board and at each Health and Wellbeing Board. The Department for Education case lead for Lancashire would also attend a meeting of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Operations Group every six weeks.

 

The Accelerated Progress Plan will be presented recurrently to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Sub-Committee of the Health and Wellbeing Board for scrutiny and challenge. At the first meeting of the Sub-Committee it was agreed that a baseline position for each of the five areas of improvement be presented to facilitate this process. A required outcome of the activity which was taking place to improve leaders’ view of the local area was to create a data dashboard; this would be shared and reported against at each Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Sub-Committee meeting.  It would also consider the progress and impact at its meeting in December 2020 prior to the next meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board and all subsequent meetings.

 

Progress on the Accelerated Progress Plan will be reviewed formally by the Department for Education and NHS England/Improvement (E/I) after six months and twelve months; there will be no further Ofsted/Care Quality Commission revisit inspections. 

 

In addition, following a review of the Terms of Reference at the initial Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Sub-Committee it was proposed to remove the officers from the membership who would report to the Sub-Committee and be accountable for delivering the improvements.

 

Resolved:  That the Health and Wellbeing Board:

 

(i)  Noted the Accelerated Progress Plan (APP) submitted to the Department for Education (Appendix 'A') to address the five areas where it had been judged that sufficient progress had not yet been achieved;

(ii)  Noted the establishment of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Sub-Committee of the Health and Wellbeing Board, which met for the first time on 24 September 2020;

(iii)  Received a verbal update on the progress of actions in the Accelerated Progress Plan due to be completed at the end of October 2020.

(iv)  Approved the revised Terms of Reference for the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board – Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Sub-Committee as set out in Appendix 'B' of the report.

 

Divisions Affected: (All Divisions);

Contact: Craig Alker Email: craig.alker@lancashire.gov.uk Tel: 01772 537997.

Report author: Craig Alker

Date of decision: 03/11/2020

Decided at meeting: 03/11/2020 - Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board

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