Jamal Clement

This week, we hosted SEND Reform Starts Here: Crafting a Strong Local Plan Reform Plan in partnership with 31ten Consulting, with insights from Peter Nathan, Director of Education at Enfield Council. Over 50 local authority leaders and SEND professionals joined us for a conversation that was honest, urgent and, at times, refreshingly candid about how hard this all is. Local areas are facing significant pressure around data, demand, provision, finance and parent confidence. The session focused on what strong local SEND reform planning looks like in practice: how to use data well, build useful forecasts, connect plans to provision and…