Issue - meetings

To provide the Committee with an update on the care for disabled children

RECEIVED the report on Looked After Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), pages 15 to 20 of the agenda pack, as laid out in the report.

NOTED that

·         the conversion from Statements to Education, Health and Social Care Plans (EHC) would assist in defining the services required for early help and intervention;

·         each local authority worked with different thresholds for compiling EHC plans and, in relation to outer borough placements, the resident borough was responsible for conducting EHC plans;

·         all but two of the children in Haringey’s residential care homes had special educational needs; the needs were mainly around autism and mental health.

AGREED to note the report.