Decision - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Sufficiency Plan 2026-2029

This report provides an update on SEND sufficiency

1)    Cabinet agrees to note the programme of new and expanded specialist provision set out in the latest draft SEND Sufficiency Plan 2026-2029 (attached at Appendix 1).

2)    Cabinet agrees the programme of new and expanded specialist provision set out in the draft SEND Sufficiency Plan 2026–2029 and detailed in Section 3 of the report.

3)    Cabinet notes that individual provisions set out in the draft Plan which require statutory processes — including prescribed alterations under the Education and Inspections Act 2006 — will be subject to separate decisions and public consultation in due course, and that this report does not itself authorise any such alteration.