The SEND Local Offer planning tool

  • 128 item checklist for a comprehensive SEND Local Offer
  • Guidance on "What this looks like"
  • Option to link to live Local Offer web pages
  • Completely customizable for your council
  • Designed as a to do list
Get the SEND Local Offer planning tool

A comprehensive checklist for SEND Local Offer

If the SEND Local Offer is the heart of the council SEND and Inclusion strategy, we need to make sure it is truly comprehensive.

This planning tool is based on the SEND Code of Practice 2015 and breaks down chapter 4 The Local Offer into a checklist of items.

You can use this to plan additional content and content reviews, and as a target to support your children and young adults with SEND, and their parent carers.

Get the Airtable

You'll need to make an free Airtable account, and then you'll be able to Make a Copy.

Airtable is a fancy "Microsoft Excel" that lets you organise data in different ways. It's also easier to work with rich text that has bullet points.

Note: Airtable may not be WCAG accessible to everyone, and we're looking for an alternative.

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If you have any problems, get in touch and I'll personally help you out.

What people are saying

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I can link the actual pages of the Local Offer

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I love that everything is in one place

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It's a very detailed to do list

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Supports your planning and challenges you to make the Local Offer better

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You always know what's done, and what's next

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It’s just very visual

Understanding the column headings

A short explanation of each column of the planning tool. If you have any questions, or suggestions on how to make this better, contact us.

Item

Each item has a separate name such as 4.25 "You said, we did", or "4.28 Data informed decisions".

Where an item is broken down into bullet points the name might be "4.32 bullet B".

Code of Practice text

This is the text from the Code of Practice 2015. Where an Item is a bullet point, the introduction text is added too.

Code of Practice section

Section headings from the SEND Code of Practice Chapter 4 "The Local Offer"

Categories

These are categories we have made to tag each Item in the COP. Can be useful for planning co-production of services work.

What does this look like ?

Notes on how this may appear in the SEND Local Offer. For example it might be part of the SEND Strategy document, your Engagement Policy, or your Accessibility Policy.

Link to the SEND Local Offer page

You can add a link to the relevant page from your SEND Local Offer.

Status

A tag to show if the page is To Do (up next on your content), is Weak on content, has been Started, is under Review, Live, or has Nothing.

The Strategy tag shows that the item is part of the whole Local Offer strategy (rather than a web page).

The Settings tag is for content for schools, colleges, or childcare to create.

Responsibility

We've added a few tags to categorise each Item under who is responsible for it. You can

  • edit the name of the item

  • change the item to a named person

  • add more options

Notes

For your notes

Resources

You can add resources that you might need to help you. For example, links to Health services, or to PDFs that need to be added as web content.

Views

With Views you can see a filtered part of the whole list, for example all the Health items, or anything related to the SEND Strategy.

Group

You can Group Items by Status so that you can see all the Started, Review, To Do items etc. This gives you a nice checklist to work from, and automatically moves Items from one group to another when you change the Status.