Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 21
21
In May 2020, we reported on the support in place for children with special educational...
Conclusion
In May 2020, we reported on the support in place for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We concluded that many children with SEND were being failed by the support system and recommended that the Department should, as a matter of urgency, complete its SEND review which had begun in September 2019.45 In March 2021, the Department told us that that it would publish the Green Paper with its proposals for change towards the end of June 2021. The Department did not meet this timetable and the SEND review has now taken over two years.46
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
4. PAC conclusion: While we wait for the much-delayed SEND review, the support system continues to fail many children and remains financially unsustainable. 4: PAC recommendation: The Department should set out in the SEND review (which it has committed to publish in the first quarter of 2022) what improvements it is aiming to achieve and over what time period, and make clear what specific metrics it will use to assess whether the support system is improving and becoming more sustainable. 4.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation Recommendation implemented 4.2 The government published the outcome of the SEND Review in the Special Educational Needs and Disability and Alternative Provision Green Paper - SEND Review: Right Support, Right place, Right time on 29 March 2022. The consultation on the Green Paper will close on 1 July 2022. 4.3 Later in 2022 the department will publish a national SEND delivery plan, setting out the government’s response to the consultation and how change will be implemented and by whom to deliver better outcomes for children and young people. 4.4 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, wrote to the Committee about the Green Paper on 28 March 2022.