Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Service Director Strategy and Commissioning, Stockport MBC and Interim Director of Commissioning, Stockport CCG

The report outlines Stockport Council and Stockport CCG’s shared commitment to supporting children and young people with SEND and their families in Stockport.

The Board is asked to agree the Special Education Needs and Disability Joint Commissioning Plan.

Officer contact: Kathryn Rees, 0161 474 3174, kathryn.rees@stockport.gov.uk

A joint report of the Service Director Strategy and Commissioning (Stockport MBC) and the Interim Director of Commissioning (Stockport CCG) was submitted (copies of which had been circulated) seeking the Board’s endorsement of the Special Education Needs and Disability Joint Commissioning Plan. The Plan detailed information relating to the co-production of the strategy and the approach to joint commissioning to be an inclusive Borough. It also outlined the five commissioning and investment priorities for 2019/20 and 2020/21.

Board Members welcomed the plan and the joint work between the Council and the CCG that had been undertaken to develop the plan.

Comments were made relating to the commitment and the delivery of the plan and parents being able to see real improvements to services and assessments as a result of their involvement in shaping and being engaged in the process to produce the plan.

RESOLVED – That Kathryn Rees and Andrea Green be thanked and the Board endorse the Special Education Needs and Disability Joint Commissioning Plan.