Leaders must reduce waiting times across health services and strengthen the offer of support available to children and young people and their families while waiting for health assessments and diagnosis.  This includes Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and community paediatrics.

The local area partnership must work together to urgently strengthen the systems that support partners’ collaborative work at all levels. This includes the development and use of more effective governance arrangements to ensure improvements are made to SEND services in a timely manner.

Area for Improvement 1

Leaders across the partnership should consider ways to further improve and embed the way that co-production is used across the partnership

Area for Improvement 2

The local area partnership should continue to build on the work that has already been started in improving working relationships with parents and carers.