SEND Manifesto Update- Spring 2025

Learn Sheffield has been commissioned by SCC to support improvement in SEND in the city. Updates on this work are available here: https://learnsheffield.co.uk/Projects/Sheffield-SEND-Manifesto/

Recent updates include information on the Learn Sheffield SEND Team, and updates on the work to reegineer the graduated approach and the work on healthy child development.

• The Learn Sheffield SEND Team is now in place – we are considering how it will need to develop to provide access to additional expertise by September 2025.
• The work to develop a detailed and holistic description of healthy child development has been scoped by a wide multi-disciplinary group of colleagues. The writing group has been formed and will provide a first draft of birth-11 years this term before moving on to 11-18 years in the summer term.
• Work to reengineer the graduated approach has also begun, initially involving the Learn Sheffield SEND team. We will discuss a phased test and learn approach this term with the intention of completing this in the summer term to inform the manifesto proposals. We also discussed the general and unique differences approach that we have been exploring at the breakfast.

We plan to use the Leaders Conference (Friday 4 July), Governance Conference (Saturday 5 July) and a festival week across the following week as an opportunity to set out the final SEND Manifesto and its implications for 2025/26 and beyond.