One of England's biggest councils has outlined plans to make its education services more responsive to individual children's needs.
Birmingham council has put the final touches to an inclusion strategy that will run until 2008. The strategy was expected to be approved by its cabinet this week. It aims to achieve earlier intervention by developing "clear arrangements" for the allocation of special educational needs funding and by developing more inclusive school buildings, teaching and support services.
The council's progress in implementing the strategy will be monitored by three separate delivery groups. One group will contain young people with disabilities while another will contain health workers and teachers.
