Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 24
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We asked the Department what the metrics of success for the SEND review would be...
Conclusion
We asked the Department what the metrics of success for the SEND review would be and how it would know that it had succeeded in giving the necessary support to children with SEND. The Department told us that the goal of the review was to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND in a financially sustainable way, because it could see that cost pressures and performance issues were interlinked. It said that it had been discussing metrics with the review’s steering group and with stakeholders. As well as educational attainment, the impact measures would cover life outcomes, such as numbers not in education, employment or training, and health and wellbeing.49
Government Response
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HM Government
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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.