Making SEND everyone’s business

We are thrilled to share some updates on our amazing new Children's Service programme 'Making SEND Everyone's Business'.

Since our last communication, we have appointed 82 new frontline staff to the Inclusion & Skills Directorate of Children's Services.

We also celebrated the launch of the SEND Academy on Monday 8 January, with 37 new recruits joining across the first two cohorts. These recruits have diverse backgrounds in education and social care, and some have personal experience with SEND. The SEND Academy programme offers them the opportunity to pursue the BTEC Level 3 and 4 in SEND Casework and Casework Management, accredited by NASEN. This is a unique and valuable professional development for our new and existing staff.

We are laying the groundwork for better outcomes for children and young people soon by enhancing our capacity and capability over the coming months. We are confident that our new programme will make a positive difference for the children and young people with SEND in Hertfordshire, and we look forward to sharing more updates with you soon.

We’ve written a short blog about Making SEND Everyone’s Business:

Hertfordshire.Gov.UK: MSE Blog for you read and share with families too.

Any questions?

This is an important change to improve the way we do things at the council - we want to make sure you understand the changes and have the information you need.

We will share more information with you when the work is further along. If you have any questions at all at this stage, please email SENDstrategy@hertfordshire.gov.uk. We will consider how to answer these as part of our next update.