Stockton-on-Tees Local Area SEND and Alternative Provision Strategy 2025 to 2030
1. Co-producing our strategy
During 2025, we have jointly developed our Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Strategy with children, young people, parents and carers and partners including education settings, health, and care professionals. We have listened and gathered feedback through consultation including stakeholder meetings, surveys, face to face engagement and SEND focused events across the borough to develop priorities and commitments in this strategy.
Our strategy is grounded in principles that have been co-produced with children, young people, parents and carers. These principles guide how we, as a local SEND system, works with and supports them:
We work together for a good life
Children, young people, and their families are at the heart of the way we work. We treat one another with dignity, empathy, and curiosity to discover what a good life looks like, focusing on what matters not just what's the matter.
Nothing about us without us
The views of children, young people and families inform decisions about their lives, the planning, delivery, and commissioning of services.
Inclusion
Children and young people are supported to live an ordinary life.
