Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Communication, Engagement and Participation Plan 2023-26

The current SEND communication and engagement strategy (2020-2023) was successfully used to:

• build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders ensuring it engages rather than consult
• implement and deliver on a comprehensive programme of engagement
• enhance the user experience of our SEN Local Offer and increase its number of visits
• develop models of good practice across teaching and learning through Thurrock GEMs and Pupil Voice Projects
• embed a Quality Assurance Framework, ensuring the golden thread, and the feedback cycle is maintained

The strategy will now become a plan and form part of the overall SEND Strategy for 2023-26.

The proposed plan sets out the approach by which all SEND communication and engagement will be planned and managed by partners across Thurrock. It replaces the Community and Engagement Strategy of 2020 – 2023 and includes the SEND Pupil and Student Engagement Strategy. It’s also in line with the revised Ofsted Inspection Framework and the Government's Green Paper 'SEND review: right support, right place, right time'.

We would like your views on the proposed priority areas, which are:

• Work together better
• Assessment, aspiration, and achievement
• Promoting inclusive outcomes
• Pathway to independence
• Progress and impact

More detail about these priorities can be found here. Please download and read this document before completing the below survey as we will be asking you questions about:

• whether these priority areas are the ‘right’ areas of focus
• other considerations
• suggested activities to ensure the achievement of priority areas
• the impact on children, young people and their families
• other key stakeholders to support the delivery of priority areas