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SEND Strategy 2025 - 2028

What is a strategy and why is it important?

A strategy is a document that's created by a  partnership to identify what they agree needs to change or happen and how they will get there. Agreeing a strategy allows partnerships to ensure that they are all focusing their energy on the things that are most important to change or improve and help them work more effectively together.

What is the "Area SEND Partnership"?

The "area SEND partnership" is a name used to describe all of the services that deliver support for children and young people in Milton Keynes. The partnership includes:

  • All of our schools, colleges and early years providers
  • The Parent Carer Forum, PACA MK
  • Services that provide health support like therapies, paediatric clinics and school nurses for children and young people with SEND, including Milton Keynes hospital.
  • Local authority education services including our SEND and inclusion teams who support children being successful in school, and our place planning teams who look at how many school places we'll need over time.
  • Local authority social care teams that support children (like the children with disabilities team), and social care teams that support adults (like the working age adults team)
  • Milton Keynes public health team, and the BLMK integrated care board (ICB) who plan, buy and monitor health services in the area.

The number of people working across all of the services mentioned above is huge, and so the partnership has named representatives who help to make plans and share messages. Four times a year, a group representing all of the services above meets to discuss how things are going and to check that we are working to improve things that we agree need to get better. This meeting is called the "SEND Strategic Partnership Board". The SEND Strategic Partnership Board uses something called the 'SEND Strategy' to ensure we are keeping focused on improving our services.

Milton Keynes SEND Strategy 2025 - 28 Children and young people with SEND thrive, belong and are at the heart of our plans.

SEND Strategy 1
SEND Strategy 2
SEND Strategy 3
SEND Strategy 4

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) in Milton Keynes focuses on children and young adults aged 0-25 years who are residents of, or who are educated within, Milton Keynes. The JSNA aims to provide Milton Keynes’ SEND Partnership Board, departments with responsibility for commissioning and service delivery and local leaders with an up to date understanding of the needs of local children and young adults with SEND to: 

• Inform the strategic, system wide priorities to improve independence and outcomes for children and young adults with SEND, and their families,

• Inform commissioning at both strategic and operational levels, so that services and support are tailored to need and based upon the best available evidence 

• Inform the wider system so that all relevant future plans in the local area are considered through the lens of independence and inclusion, reducing the social and environmental barriers to living with as much independence as possible.

To read the document in full, please click here. 

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