The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) was commissioned by Birmingham City Council (BBC) in March 2022 to undertake a review of Birmingham Sendiass (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Services), after the Education Secretary issued a statutory direction on the council to improve its SEND services in October 2021.
According to the NCB report, completed six months ago but only now published in a redacted format, the service only complied fully with three out of 20 national minimum standards, and more than half of its operations were 'RAG-rated red', which means of serious concern.
This review, which started in March 2022 and reported to the SEND Improvement Board in July 2022, found “inadequacies” in the infrastructure, including “weak policies” and “lack of a service development plan”.
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