Every SEND strategy

SEND strategies

Every SEND strategy in the research library, by local authority.

89 local authorities with a strategy in the library

Birmingham

Birmingham SEND Strategy 2023-2028 (pdf, 17.2MB)

Blackpool

Blackpool SEND Strategy 2022–2025 (pdf, 2.3MB)

Bolton

Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Bolton Local Area Strategic Overview 2024-2029 (pdf, 472KB)

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole SEND Improvement Plan 2023/26 (pdf, 1.4MB)

Bracknell Forest

Bracknell Forest Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Strategy 2023-2026 (pdf, 3.3MB)

Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Strategy 2021–2026 (pdf, 2MB)

Bristol City Council

Bristol SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2028 (pdf, 3.3MB)

Buckinghamshire

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Inclusion Strategy 2021-2023 (Buckinghamshire) (pdf, 2.2MB)

Calderdale

The Calderdale Strategy for Children and Young People aged 0-25 years with SEND and their Families 2019-2022 (pdf, 3.9MB)

Cambridgeshire

Making SEND Everybody's Business: A Strategy to Provide Inclusion for Children and Young People Aged 0-25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, 2019-2024) (pdf, 552KB)

Central Bedfordshire

Central Bedfordshire SEND Strategy 2025-2028 (Refresh) (pdf, 1.1MB)

Cheshire East

Cheshire East Inclusion Strategy 2025-2028 (SEND and AP One Plan) (pdf, 656KB)

City of London Corporation

City of London Local Area Partnership Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Strategy 2025-2029 (pdf, 952KB)

Wakefield

The SEND Strategy for Children, Young People and Families in the Wakefield District 2020 to 2024 (pdf, 1.3MB)

York

SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): Overview (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): The key aims of York's SEND Sufficiency Strategy (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): Assessing the need in York (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): Future demand (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): Our SEND Sufficiency Strategy (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): The plan for the SEND Sufficiency Strategy (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): The outcomes of the SEND Sufficiency Strategy (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): Funding and governance (opens on another site)
SEND Sufficiency Strategy 2024 to 2030 (York): Glossary (opens on another site)
SEND Strategy for Children, Young People and Families in York (September 2021 - September 2025) (pdf, 1.1MB)

Cornwall

SEND Strategic Plan 2025-2028: Meeting needs together (Cornwall) (pdf, 1.8MB)

Council of the Isles of Scilly

Making a Difference - The Isles of Scilly Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Strategy 2023-2026 (pdf, 346KB)

Cumberland

Cumberland Local Area SEND and Alternative Provision Strategy 2024 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3MB)

Derby

Derby City Local Area SEND Strategy (November 2020) (pdf, 1.2MB)

Derbyshire

Strategy for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Derbyshire 2020-2023 (pdf, 1.2MB)

Doncaster

Doncaster SEND Strategy 2022-2025 (v10) (pdf, 992KB)

Dudley

Dudley SEND Strategy Refresh 2025/29: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures (pdf, 920KB)

East Riding of Yorkshire

SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2026-2031 (East Riding of Yorkshire Local Area Partnership) (pdf, 7MB)

Essex

My Life, My Rights: Essex Local Area SEND Strategy 2022-2027 (pdf, 4.2MB)

Gloucestershire

SEND Strategy 2022-2025 (Gloucestershire) (pdf, 1.5MB)

Halton

Halton Education Accessibility Strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 738KB)
Halton SEND Strategy 2021-2025 (revised February 2024) (pdf, 411KB)

Herefordshire

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Strategy 2023-26 (Herefordshire, friendly read edition) (pdf, 903KB)

Hertfordshire

SEND Strategy 2026-2029 (Hertfordshire Local Area Partnership) (pdf, 3.6MB)

Kent

Kent SEND Strategy 2025-2028 (pdf, 3.1MB)

Kingston upon Hull City Council

Hull's SEND Strategic Plan 2024-2027 (pdf, 2MB)

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

SEND - The Big Plan (Kirklees, October 2023 refresh) (pdf, 1.2MB)

Knowsley

SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2023-2026 (Knowsley) (pdf, 5.2MB)

Lancashire

Lancashire SEND Partnership Strategy 2025-2028 (pdf, 853KB)

Leeds

Everyone's Included: The Leeds SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2022-2027 (pdf, 1022KB)

Leicester

Involve, Listen, Respond: Leicester's Strategy for Supporting Children and Young People with SEND 2019-2022 (pdf, 462KB)

Leicestershire

Leicestershire Local Offer Strategy 2025-2030 (pdf, 364KB)

Liverpool

Liverpool Area Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Strategy 2023-2026 (pdf, 8.2MB)

Camden

Camden SEND Strategy 2022 to 2027 (pdf, 2.4MB)

Croydon

Croydon SEND and Alternative Provision Local Area Strategy 2023-2026 (pdf, 6.2MB)

Ealing

Ealing Strategy for Additional and Special Educational Needs, Disabilities and Inclusion 2023-2027 (pdf, 1.5MB)

Hammersmith and Fulham

Hammersmith & Fulham Local Area Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Strategy 2023-2028 (pdf, 2MB)

Havering

Special Educational Needs, Disabilities and Alternative Provision Strategy 2024-2028 (pdf, 20.6MB)

Lambeth

Lambeth SEND and Alternative Provision Strategy 2025-2030 (pdf, 711KB)

Medway

Medway's Strategy for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) 2019-2022 (pdf, 1.1MB)

Newcastle upon Tyne

Getting It Right Together: SEND Strategy for Newcastle upon Tyne Local Area 2023-2028 (pdf, 2.8MB)

Norfolk

Norfolk Area Special Educational Needs and/or Disability (SEND) Strategy 2019-2024 (pdf, 1.7MB)

North East Lincolnshire

NEL SENDAP Strategy 2024-2029 (North East Lincolnshire) (pdf, 3MB)

North Somerset

North Somerset SEND Strategy (pdf, 321KB)

North Tyneside

North Tyneside Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Inclusion Strategy 2025-2029 (pdf, 1.5MB)

North Yorkshire

Local Area Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Strategy 2023-2026 (North Yorkshire) (pdf, 924KB)

Northumberland

Northumberland Local Area Strategy for Children, Young People and their families with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities 2021-2024 (pdf, 2.2MB)

Nottingham

Nottingham City Local Area Partnership SEND, Inclusion & Alternative Provision (AP) Strategy 2025-2028 (pdf, 3.5MB)

Nottinghamshire

Our Outcomes-Based Strategy for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in Nottinghamshire (pdf, 4.4MB)

Oldham

Oldham SEND & Inclusion Strategy 2023-2027 (pdf, 668KB)

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire Local Area SEND Strategy (May 2022) (pdf, 7.1MB)

Peterborough

Making SEND Everybody's Business: A Strategy to Provide Inclusion for Children and Young People Aged 0-25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, 2019-2024) (pdf, 552KB)

Plymouth

Plymouth SEND Strategy 2023-2026 (2025 refresh) (pdf, 334KB)

Portsmouth

Rotherham

"My Life, My Rights": Rotherham SEND Strategy 2024-2029 (pdf, 4.6MB)

Rutland

Inclusive Rutland: Rutland's SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2017 (Refreshed December 2020) (pdf, 205KB)

Sandwell

Sandwell Local Area Partnership Inclusion (SEND & Alternative Provision) Plan 2023-2026 (pdf, 1MB)

Sefton

Sefton SEND Strategy 2025-2028 (Easy Read summary) (pdf, 1.5MB)

Sheffield

Shaped by What's Around Us: Sheffield's Local Area SEND Partnership Strategy 2025-2030 (pdf, 2.6MB)

Shropshire

Shropshire SEND & Alternative Provision (AP) Strategy 2024-2029 (pdf, 3.2MB)

Slough

Slough SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2025-2030 (pdf, 4.3MB)

Solihull

Solihull's Strategy for Inclusive Education 2022-2025 (pdf, 917KB)

Somerset

SEND Joint Commissioning Strategy (pdf, 860KB)

South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire Local Area Partnership Special Educational Needs Strategic Action Plan (pdf, 226KB)

South Tyneside

South Tyneside Special Educational Needs & Disability Strategy 2023-26 (pdf, 294KB)

Southampton

Southampton's Children and Young People's SEND Strategy 2022-2027 (pdf, 1.9MB)

Southend-on-Sea

Southend SEND Area Partnership: Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Strategy 2023 to 2026 (pdf, 496KB)

St. Helens

St Helens SEND Strategy 2024-2027: Visible, Valued and Included (pdf, 534KB)

Staffordshire

Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Strategy 2021-26 (Staffordshire) (pdf, 296KB)

Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees Local Area Partnership Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Strategy 2025-2030 (pdf, 961KB)

Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent SEND Strategy 2024-2028 (pdf, 4MB)

Suffolk

Suffolk's SEND Strategy 2024-2029 (pdf, 10.8MB)

Surrey

Surrey Inclusion and Additional Needs Partnership Strategy 2023-2026 (pdf, 813KB)

Swindon

Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People with SEND in Swindon: SEND, Inclusion and Alternative Provision Strategy 2023-2028 (pdf, 3.2MB)

Tameside

Tameside SEND 0-25 Strategy (September 2025 - September 2028) (pdf, 11.9MB)

Thurrock

Thurrock Local Area Partnership Special Educational Needs, Disability and Alternative Provision Strategy 2024-27 (pdf, 1MB)

Torbay

Torbay SEND Strategy 2023 (pdf, 529KB)

Walsall

Walsall SEND and Alternative Provision Strategy 2023-2028 (Version 2, updated October 2025) (pdf, 4MB)

Warrington

Warrington's Strategy for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) 2023 (pdf, 1.2MB)

Warwickshire

Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Overview (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 2 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 3 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 4 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 5 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 6 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 7 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 8 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 9 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 10 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 11 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 12 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 13 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 14 (opens on another site)
Warwickshire SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Section 15 (opens on another site)

West Berkshire

West Berkshire Council SEND & Inclusion Strategy 2024-2029: Innovation in SEND (pdf, 3.4MB)

Westmorland and Furness

Local Area Special Educational Needs and/or Disability (SEND) Improvement Plan 2025-2028 (pdf, 453KB)

Wokingham

Wokingham Area SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024 to 2029 (Easy Read edition) (pdf, 4.5MB)

Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton SEND and Inclusion Strategy 2024-2027 (pdf, 613KB)

Worcestershire

Worcestershire Strategy for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) 2021-2025 (pdf, 583KB)