The draft reforms, which were laid out in Parliament yesterday, focus on joint commissioning of services and the introduction of Education, Health and Care Plans, which are designed to make support more streamlined and integrated than the current statement and learning difficulty assessment.
The proposals to reform provision for children and young people with special educational needs were first set out in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Green Paper, Support and Aspiration, published in March 2011. This was followed by the Next Steps document in May of this year.
The reforms will be included in the draft Children and Families Bill, expected to be published later this month.
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