I last wrote the ADCS blog in January 2020 and was looking forward to what the next decade may bring us.
I finished that blog with “Hopefully it will be a less turbulent decade…..” so perhaps I should have learnt to steer well clear of looking to the future. However, many of the challenges for children’s services pre-Covid 19 still hold true and the risks in the system have escalated as a result of the pandemic.
The first area I want to highlight is support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This time last year, we knew that the system was at breaking point, if not beyond, and a national review had started which we hoped would address some of the key challenges.
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