SEND and Alternative Provision Strategy 2025 to 2030 Summary

During 2025, we worked with children, young people, parents, carers, and partners including education settings, health, and care professionals to jointly develop our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Strategy. We gathered feedback through consultations, surveys, face-to-face engagement, and SEND focused events across the borough.

Our approach is guided by 3 principles:

• we work together for a good life - children, young people, and their families are at the heart of the way we work and 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 matters - children and young people are supported to live an ordinary life

Children, young people, and their families are at the heart of everything we do. We want every child to grow up safe, supported, and able to achieve their best.

You can request an easy read version or a copy of the full Strategy document and ask any questions.

Contact the Local Offer team or email: localoffer@stockton.gov.uk