SEND & Inclusion Strategy 2025-2030

We are currently developing our new SEND & Inclusion Strategy in West Sussex. At this early stage, we invite you to provide feedback on our newly developed Vision (our big plan for the future), Principles (what we will do to deliver the vision) and Priorities (the things we will focus on over the next 5 years). These three aspects will underpin our strategic direction for SEND & Inclusion in the local area, for the next 5 years.

So far, we have delivered three face to face workshops across the County, and one online workshop that were held in the Autumn term of 2024. During these workshops, we were pleased to welcome young people and their families and a wide range of colleagues and leaders from across the SEND Local Area Partnership including representatives from health, social care and education, including years settings, schools and colleges.  

Since the Autumn '24 workshops, we have carefully reviewed your feedback, and with help from Young People at Chichester College and our 'Together for Change Panel', led and chaired by our West Sussex Parent Carer Forum, we have co-produced our Vision and three Principles for the strategy, and revised our original Priorities, for which we now have six of.

But now, we need your help again to make sure that we have identified the right things, so that we can continue to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND, and their families. 

At the end of the Strategy survey, we will ask a few non-identifiable questions about yourself. This is just so that we can ensure we have a diverse range of feedback, to help shape our new SEND & Inclusion Strategy over the next 5 years. If you would prefer not to answer these, then please do skip past.

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