Stockton-on-Tees Local Area SEND and Alternative Provision Strategy 2025 to 2030
7. How will we know if we are making a difference?
A yearly action plan will detail how we will deliver on the commitments within this strategy, including key milestones and measures that will track the impact that we are making. This plan will be driven by our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Operational Group, with regular updates on progress to the SEND Strategic Group.
Our Stockton-on-Tees Self Evaluation Framework (SEF) has been developed with members of organisations from across the local area partnership through workshops, focus groups and interviews with children, young people, and their families as part of an ongoing process to bring together our collective knowledge of local needs. Our SEF will be updated twice a year and will tell us how our strategy is improving experiences and outcomes for children, young people, and their families.
We will continue to listen to the views of children, young people, parents, and carers through a range of methods including:
- our Youth Forum
- our continued partnership with the Parent Carer Forum
- engagement events throughout the year
- learning and feedback from the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) process
As well as listening, we commit to a 'you said, we did' approach and communicating with our children, young people, parents, and carers to provide regular updates about the progress we are making.
